I feel sorry for the majority of you who are probably too young to have experienced this splendor in situ between Saturday morning cartoon episodes. It was an amazing time.
The preamble of the Constitution
“We the people in order to form a more perfect union…“๐ถ Link
How to turn an adjective into an adverb.
“โฆwith our handy -ly attachment!” Link
The importance of unpacking your adjectives.
“He was a hairy bear. He was a scary bear. I made a hasty retreat from his lair.” ๐ถ Link
Interjections are generally set apart from the sentence by an exclamation point. Or by a comma when the feeling’s not as strong.
“Hey doctor that’s not fair, giving a guy a shot down there!” Link
King George was a monster.
“…and when the colonists complained he said, ‘I don’t care.’” ๐ถ Link
The Declaration of Independence says men have the right to chase women around the room.
“โฆwe had the right of life and liberty! โฆ and the pursuit of happiness!” ๐ถ ๐๐๐ (this is a real scene from a children’s educational piece about American history. What the actual heck?! And even crazier: it didn’t really seem weird at the time.) Link
Life would be really hard without pronouns.
“He, him, and his are pronouns replacing the noun Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla, a very proper noun. And it is a pronoun replacing the noun…kangarooooooo!” ๐ถ Link
The writers might have been recreational drug users.
“Somewhere in the ancient mystic trinity, you get three, a magic number. The past and the present and the future, faith and hope and charity, the heart and the brain and the body give you three, a magic number.” ๐ถ Link
