I’m currently sitting outside my gate with a few minutes to go until boarding.
A few of you will be excited to hear that I finally picked up the first three Harry Potter books to read during my 13 hour flight. Considering the fact that I really enjoy adventure books, I’ll admit that it’s a little bit strange that I haven’t read them yet. Everyone’s told me that I’m crazy for having not read them yet, and so I figured this flight would be a good time to start.
However, as my dad was driving me to the airport this morning, I realized that I’d forgotten them all on my desk.
So…. yeah. A visit to the airport bookstore was mandatory.
I now have a book full of travel writing pieces (to feed my current obsession) and a copy of Eragon (to sooth my upset soul that was previously very excited about reading a children’s adventure book).
Hopefully I’ll be able to read slow enough for the books to last me the majority of the flight. I doubt it, but hopefully…
That’s all for now. I’ll write from Japan next 
Over the past few months I’ve been looking to review my grammar, punctuation, and overall writing skills. I’ve learned many things in school before but it’s easy to forget some. I had decided that reviewing these skills a few more times would definitely help to drill them into my memory. It has been moving along slowly, but at least it’s moving!
I read Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss in September. It was very informative and highly amusing - at least for my easily-amused personality. I came out of it determined to beef up my hyphen and semi-colon use, as well as to reduce my ellipses use.
Now, I am currently going through When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People: How to Avoid Common Errors in English by Ann Batko.
I’ll post any other tidbits that I found helpful (as long as some from Truss’ book), but here’s one that I’m currently amazed by: The Who vs. Whom issue.
So many people pick and use the wrong word of the two. The book looks at Who is the present for? vs. Whom is the present for?
Without going into details and breaking down the sentence to talk about clauses, subjects and objects, etc. here’s a tip:
Think of how you would restate the sentence with the pronoun he/him or they/them, and if you use a form that ends in “m,” you need “whom.” For example, in this example, you’d say, Is the present for them? You wouldn’t say, Is the present for they.
So! Instead of incorrectly saying That’s the actor who Sally adores, you should be saying That’s the actor whom Sally adores. This is because Sally adores him and not he.
Right.
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