(Well, first, second, and third, actually, but you get my generalized meaning of first, don’t you? Of course you do.) I’ll start with a suggestion from Carlos Iriarte, who wrote:Īs a non native speaker, I would love to see a discussion about the possessive apostrophe, or the proper order of adjectives.Ĭarlos, you’ll have to go somewhere else to learn more about apostrophes, but as it happens, adjective ordering is a topic that I’ve been curious about for years.

But I only have three books to give away, so with some difficulty I’ve settled on the three topics that I’m going to write about first. Actually, I got significantly more than three suggestions that would be interesting to write about, and they’ll be a source of inspiration in months to come. It’s time to make good on my pledge to write about the three most interesting topic suggestions I got during the Grammar Girl book giveaway contest.

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