SAGP: The Self-Appointed Grammar Police!

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

We are the Self-Appointed Grammar Police.

Correcting Mechanical Errors in Your Writing, Tina Blue writes:

And as if [the difficulty of English rules] were not itself a sufficient obstacle to the aspiring writer, there are the self-appointed ``Grammar Police,'' just waiting to pounce on any error and to hold its perpetrator up to public ridicule.

Yes! That's us!

English grammar, spelling, usage and style: the final frontier. These are the chronicles of the Self-Appointed Grammar Police. We're on a five-year mission to explore the internet, and to criticise bad writing wherever we find it. We're going to boldly nail split infinitives that no-one has nailed before.

What's on this site?

• We have a list of Frequently Asked Questions.
• We have a set of Book Recommendations.
• The bulk of what we have here is our Casebook - a depressing litany of inappropriate word choice, poor punctuation, ambiguity, clumsy style and inaccurate spelling. All of it judged and punished. Quite right too.
• We have introduced a new ``How To ...'' department, in which we give you benefit of our wisdom on how best to do all manner of writing-related things.
• *NEW* You can find out what other people have been saying about the SAGP.

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