ACES 2014 National Grammar Day Tweeted Haiku Contest entries

Here are the entries in the National Grammar Day Tweeted Haiku contest. If you don’t see your entry here, be assured it was considered if it had the hashtag #grammarday, but cutting and pasting is imperfect. Let us know and we’ll add it. Most of the entries also  can be found on the Storify page here: http://storify.com/copyeditors/aces-national-grammar-day-tweeted-haiku-contest @MiltownBucky One tiny mistake,Published where no one will see?Wrong! Thousands of comments.#grammarday #seewhatIdidthere — Mandi Lindner (@MandiMLindner) March 3, 2014

Oxford’s weather showsThe loveliness of damp prose:Comma-splattered lines.#grammarday — Tina Ray (@raytinamu) March 3, 2014

Awl of my tweets ourFilled with grammatical airLet’s keep it that weigh#grammarday #haiku — William (@MiltownBucky) March 3, 2014

I can’t punctuate. My mind’s filled with tales. An editor saves. #grammarday #haikuchallenge — Shawn Jones (@CaptainDucttape) March 3, 2014

Punctuation predicate & subject a simple sentence #grammarday #haiku — Eric C Poncho (@MdrnPetroglyphs) March 3, 2014

Adjectives Adverbs Magical descriptive words metaphor builders #grammarday #haiku — Eric C Poncho (@MdrnPetroglyphs) March 3, 2014

Punctuation predicate & subject a simple sentence #grammarday #haiku — Eric C Poncho (@MdrnPetroglyphs) March 3, 2014

You made a mistake in your tweet about grammar. Is that irony? #grammarday #haiku — Jill Golden (@_goldengrams) March 3, 2014

Contractions endure as they did in a bygone year — your you’re of yore. #grammarday — John Hausman (@JohnSHausman) March 3, 2014

Sociolinguist Deep In wild wordy woods of Decay and rebirth #grammarday #haiku — Robert Keim (@RobKeim) March 3, 2014

spel cheks dont matter 4get da rulz of grammar one forty spaces #grammarday #haiku — Eric C Poncho (@MdrnPetroglyphs) March 3, 2014

Everybody knows the pronoun is singular but they just don’t care. #grammarday — Ray Vallese (@RayVallese) March 3, 2014

Infinitive split / Some doubt ‘to’ is part of you / Sometimes you are bare #GrammarDay — Agnieszka Karch (@5minutelanguage) March 3, 2014

Oxford comma you see / before ‘and’ to well / meaning gauge, and be clear #GrammarDay — Agnieszka Karch (@5minutelanguage) March 3, 2014

#GrammarDay haikus must follow the rules, or else— “too long, didn’t read.” — Jill Golden (@_goldengrams) March 3, 2014

Sentences and me: we don’t mind getting complex, but don’t make us run. #grammarday #haiku — Holly Ashworth (@ActuallyHolly) March 3, 2014

Oh semicolon\You are so the Jar Jar Binks\ of punctuation. #grammarday — Rachel Menard (@MissusM) March 3, 2014

#grammarday That “word” ANYWAYS should not end with that damn ‘S’. The plural’s in ANY !! — Mark Hanson (@MHanson62) March 3, 2014

This is just to say I have truncated the verse That you were probab #grammarday — Ranjit Bhatnagar (@ranjit) March 3, 2014

PEOPLE CAN DEBATE OXFORD COMMA, BUT HULK KNOW AP STYLE RULES! #GRAMMARDAY #HAIKU #HULKU — AP STYLE HULK (@APSTYLEHULK) March 3, 2014

In honor of #grammarday, here is my traditional Japanese haiku: rain drops drip / dots on the window pane: / punctuation — Michelle Corbin (@michellecorbin) March 3, 2014

WORDS AND HULKS CHANGE FORM TO EXPRESS TENSE, MOOD AND VOICE! WHEN WORDS CRASH, HULK SMASH! #GRAMMARDAY #HAIKU #HULKU — AP STYLE HULK (@APSTYLEHULK) March 3, 2014

Writing the haiku / the dangling participle / sits there awkwardly #GrammarDay #Haiku (Retweet) — William Reagan (@WilliamReagan) March 3, 2014

Readers stayed away. Did your headline have a verb? I didn’t think so. #grammarday — Chris Smith (@cswriter) March 3, 2014

#grammarday #haiku grammar conundrum / people learn half-truths as facts / then insist they’re done — William Reagan (@WilliamReagan) March 3, 2014

I’m deeply jealous. The copy editors are meeting in Vegas. http://t.co/bXz7uBKqwX #GrammarDay — Julie Linden (@julieatlife) March 3, 2014

love the ellipsis the period’s too final noncommittal end… #grammarday — sarah lockhart long (@iamsarahbeth) March 3, 2014

Ed felt tense when he thought of words he can’t finish— he knew his limits. #grammarday — Jill Golden (@_goldengrams) March 3, 2014

A superhero called Ed can transport most words from present to past. #grammarday — Jill Golden (@_goldengrams) March 3, 2014

Ah, “were” versus “was” When to use the subjunctive? Hypotheticals #grammarday — Lex Hex (@Tingwall) March 3, 2014

You can’t be alright / no matter how great things are / all right? All is right. #grammarday — Kathleen Bethell (@katbethell) March 3, 2014

There it sits in doubt Upon the edge it dangles A modifier -Because what is a dangling modifier if not grammatical suicide? #GrammarDay — Robyn Roopchan (@RobynRoopchan) March 3, 2014

what happens to word selected by a head in DGs? It depends! #grammarday — Zac Smith (@ZacTheLinguist) March 3, 2014

I have a grievance / I yearn for fewer crows here / and for them, less food. #grammarday — Kathleen Bethell (@katbethell) March 3, 2014

Writer, don’t stet me Your ego gets in the way Let’s work together #grammarday #grammarday — Lex Hex (@Tingwall) March 3, 2014

Whom shall I follow? To whom shall I reply? Who is calling me? #grammarday — Kathleen Bethell (@katbethell)