This is what i mean when i talk about teaching literature as a plastic art--language, grammar, is real material we really manipulate, with a history and conventions of manipulation, to cause real things to happen
Will never stop beating the drum that “right” and “wrong” is an ineffective way to think about grammar. Grammar is loaded with an enormous amount of expressive power and information that can be made visible to a reader once they let go of the idea that it’s a punitive surveillance game.