Hi! Today I'm writing (or, tweaking?) a "Verbatim" poem, which my friend Taidgh Lynch introduced to me in this post.
My Verbatim poem is coming from "Uncovering Grammar" by Scott Thornbury.
Grammar, Grammars and Grammaring
The focus of this first chapter is to argue
that grammar is in fact a verb. Or, at least,
that there should be a verb
to grammar, to go along with the noun
grammar. Just as there is a verb to rain to go
along with the noun rain. Or to walk and a walk.
To use an analogy:
an omelette is the product
of a (relatively simple
but skillful) process
involving the beating
and frying of eggs. The process
and the product are clearly
two quite different things, and we
could call one making an omelette (or
even 'omeletting') and the other
an omelette.
In other words, grammar is not simply a thing.
It is also something that you do. Or (as we shall
be arguing later) something that -- in certain conditions --
happens.
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