However, in order for them to find the style funny, they have to know the correct grammar to start with. But what about if the author is writing from a young child’s point of view, but in the third person narrative voice: The children testers for this book found it hilarious because they knew instinctively that it was grammatically very badly written.
The grammar here is not annoying because it’s supposed to be terrible – the author is writing as if he is a rather stupid pig, so the grammar reflects this, and it makes the book funny. Well, I is guessing that is how old I is. The funniest book in our house at the moment is The Super Amazing Adventures of Me Pig by Emer Stamp.
Are we making more grammatical errors because our language is evolving and we deem it to be okay to finish a sentence with a preposition, split an infinitive, or use that instead of which, or are we just not taught grammar correctly anymore? Are there less copyeditors ( yes, I know it’s fewer) with a good grammatical grounding?ĭoes it matter more if the grammar is correct in children’s books? Some children’s books are supposed to contain grammatical errors. Or a great many books! So many of them contain grammatical errors, particularly when I read them on the kindle, although admittedly many of the ebook errors are typos, which leaves me wondering if the digitisation was just a tad slapdash. Seriously though, how much does it bother you? I read a LOT of books. My books and myself? My books and I? Are you finding this difficult to read? And now I’ve started a sentence with ‘and’, which is okay in literary prose isn’t it? Although children are taught that you absolutely mustn’t start a sentence with ‘and’ it’s not deemed to be an acceptable sentence opener.
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