On March 4, National Grammar Day reminds us of asking ourselves, do we know the grammar of the language that we speak?
The day is marked to boost up our lazy nerves to say sayonara to our grammar mistakes and join hands with the grammar rules.
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Date of Grammar Day Observance
4th of March.
History of Grammar Day
Grammar without System
If you think that our ancient ancestors were lucky to take birth in a grammar-free era, here you are an eye-opener!
A form of Sanskrit grammar existed even in the fifth century BC.
Though the traditional grammar was not in the scene at this point and was progressed by the early Greeks later along with the alphabetic system.
Grammar Defined by the Greek Legends
During the first century BC, Dionysius Thrax introduced grammar in a distinguished way. He defined it as a mode of communicating a language with components belonging to each other.
Changes with New Theories
The era of 1950s witnessed many add-ons. Some brainy souls introduced new theories, bringing a breeze of change in grammar. One of the early names from the series is — Noam Chomsky.
The New Era of Grammarly
Thanks to Max Lytvyn, Dmytro, and Alex Shevchenko for a grammar-checking platform called Grammarly!
It has been helping a lot to the editors and proofreaders by reducing their job. From ease of use to precision, it is a surprisingly pleasant and friendly tool that suggests a different types of amendments.
Grammar Day Celebration Ideas
An Obvious yet Important Observation
Can we celebrate the Ice-cream Day without consuming it? In the same way, the celebration of the National Grammar Day would remain meaningless and hollow without learning a new grammar rule.
We know our strengths or not, we do know our weak points. You also must have got some rules of grammar in which you have been getting stuck from your childhood but never found time to fix it. Now is the time to kick it out of your list of weak points.
Make a Checklist
If you have got some common points of grammar mistakes, make a note of them in the form of a checklist.
Whenever you feel like you need to crosscheck or double-check what you are speaking or writing, follow one of the below suggestions:
- If you have got time, study or research about your grammar-related doubts without keeping that painting for later.
- If you are busy or in the middle of some work, take your notebook and preserve your query for later.
Use This Wonder-tool for a Good Purpose
If you can’t manage to write it in a notebook, use your all-time companion — mobile.
What’s the best and worst aspect of this gadget is — it remains with you (you can say, you have to for some unknown reason) —all the time—wherever you go. See the bright side of it keeping the mobile sticking to your hand!
Prepare a List of Stumble-Words
Other than those complicated grammar rules, there are many more milestones. Let’s pay attention to them on this day!
Here are some examples that we stumble upon in our daily lives and badly need to fix!
Lie versus Lay
Keyline: We lie down on the bed, and lay the notebook on the table.
Their versus There
Keynote: Remember the stories that we used to write in our childhood? We used begin with... once upon a time, "THERE" was…
It's versus Its
Key point: Leaving it for you. Take it as homework or fun activity to make your own key points to remember the correct words.
Target and Memorise
Say to yourself, “Enough of excuses!” and mean it what you say.
We need to learn something from kids or those who are proactive in their lives.
Be a Kid! Love or Not – Study!
When we say something to the kids, they pay the attention and just do it. Even if they don’t, using the louder voice makes the job done. Sometimes behaving like a strict for a good reason is also okay if the end result is going to be productive or fruitful. Apply the same theory for improving your grammar.
Be a Pro-active Soul
Let your long-pending grammar errors get sorted now!
It doesn’t matter how much you delayed it; if you have realized it at this moment, the best time is now.
Whatever was the reason — your business, negligence, or laziness; if it has hit your mind today, then now is a good time.
Did you notice ‘now’ in every sentence? Instead of keeping it in your stock of to-do list, just finish it and get relieved.
Have Fun!
Make a group of those who are also on their toes to improve their grammar. Gather at a commonplace and arrange the grammar competitions. You can also make group discussions a part of the game.
If competitions don’t sound healthy, have a friendly chat on the popular articles talking about the confusion in grammar.
Spare some time with your friends or family members to check out any random discussion forum on the internet for grammar mistakes. See how this idea turns into a fun activity!
How to Celebrate the Grammar Day?
Go for a step-by-step process for cultivating a new learning habit. Here you are the basic process!
Trigger Your Self-motivation
We all are imperfectly perfect and unique in our dressing sense, culinary habits, and communications. Despite this fact, we can’t deny that learning is a lifetime process and we should always be adaptive and high-spirited about it.
Keep Your Grammar Antenna Activated
Do you know that even the big-named magazines and newspapers also go through a long checking process? It comes to us after going through the various editors’ desks. If it is checked multiple times, it means that even the experts leave some mistakes.
You are a professional or not, a mistake might pop up even after several rounds of copy editing.
Whether you are speaking or writing, be vigilant about your grammatical mistakes.
Spotlight to Highlight
Once you have spotted it, don’t forget to use your red pen or highlighter to mark it.
Revisit to Revise
If you do not recall your mistakes, you have wasted your highlighter or that red pen’s ink. Make a rule of re-visiting your errors at least five times. Keep its record by marking it with five takes — one tick for each time.
If you have reached so far, you deserve an appreciation.
Pat Yourself
Usually, people feel depressed when their mistakes or errors were highlighted. Be a trend-changer and pat yourself the day when you spotlight your own errors the most.
Share and Inspire
- If you have successfully made learning a part of your life, this is going to add a lot to your pocket of communication.
- If you have reached so far, you deserve an appreciation.
- If you are the reason behind someone reaching this point, you deserve a clap.
Why is Grammar Day Celebrated?
It Adds into Our Lives
We often think that grammar is tough to learn and understand. But have you ever thought how the world would have communicated without it?!
Read the below two sentences:
- Let’s cook, mom.
- Let’s cook mom.
Obviously, when you skip a comma after cook as in the second line, then too, you don’t mean to cook your mom.
Here comes the need and significance of grammar in our lives.
Learning Satiates Us
Once you learn it, it always gives you a sense of joy and a smile and to your lips.
It increases your happiness exponentially if you start to use it in your daily life.
Knowing It is Like Finding a Treasure
It makes you feel satisfied after pointing out the mistakes in one of your items, especially in letters.
When you find out the mistakes in someone else’s write-up, it indeed doubles your joy.
And if by chance you come across a mistake in a newspaper or a leading magazine. It just makes your day.
A mistake is committed by you or someone else, it’s always worth drawing your attention.
It Takes us Back to Our Childhood
Other than old books, college bags, and a random sight of studying children, there is one more in the series that makes you feel nostalgic. And it is — grammar.
If you come across a child, explore their grammar books and travel through your old memories of learning the grammar rules.
So you will realize that how the books that you never liked have become the reason of a smile on to your face. Thanks to our brain chamber that beautifully preserves our memories to cherish them later!
Significance of Grammar Day
Sometimes you need just a little boost or excitement to take your first step towards a boring job. Learning grammar is also one of those subjects that are never appreciated by both kids and mature adults. Even after going through the experiences when people made a mockery, we let it go in the fun.
Language and communication are indeed integral parts that humans rely on for expressing themselves for development and other processes. By observing a day such as National Grammar Day, we encourage ourselves and many others to remain motivated towards studying content that comes across every day.
Who was behind the Grammar Day?
Realizing the significance of grammar, Martha Brockenbrough founded a society in 2008 which was dedicated to the Promotion of Good Grammar.
