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to prevent stress while doing grammar it is always important to find your happy place.

This article about grammar reminded me of how much I hate English. There are so many "rules" that are not certain, and continuously confuse me. The article went over seven main grammar problems the author sees in modern writing. 

The first one about subjunctives was relatively easy to understand. The article described how if the situation is a non-true statement then were should be used, but in any other situation was should be used. 

The next common grammatical mistake was bad parallelism. I can see what the author means, but I do not see how it's important. The Author provides the example problem "My friend made salsa, guacamole, and brought chips." He states this is wrong because, "If you start out by having made cover the first two items, it has to cover subsequent ones as well." He then finishes by noting, "To fix, you usually have to do just a little rewriting. Thus, My friend made salsa and guacamole and brought chips to go with them." I can see where the error exist, but I feel like the "to go with them" should be implied.

The next problem the author describes is one I continuously struggle with: verbs (notice I used the colon correctly). The author himself points out how confusing these can be when he provides two different examples, one using lay and one using lie, "I'm tired, so I need to go lay lie down. The fish laid lay on the counter, fileted and ready to broil." This shows no consistency within grammar and furthers my belief that the differences do not matter. 

The fourth rule is regarding pronouns such as me, myself, and I. I already fully understood this section before reading it, so I did not have to worry about it very much.

The next section was probably the most confusing for me. The author describes dangling conversations and I had some trouble following his description of the problem, as well as how to fix it. He essentially summed up the problem and solution with the statement, "First, recognize sentences that have this structure: MODIFIER-COMMA-SUBJECT-VERB. Then change the order to: SUBJECT-COMMA-MODIFIER-COMMA-VERB." In this section he might as well have been speaking gibberish to me.

The sixth section on semicolons I found to be quite useful. I have never fully understood them, but with the authors description I now feel much more secure using them.

At last the final section was about words and word choice. This entire section described word choice as depending on the time and place of its use. This section made me laugh and exemplified grammar for me. It essentially said grammar is whatever the teacher feels like it should be.

Me reading all of these "rules"