Megan Grange
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Ben Marcus:
Are you grammar obsessed (more prescriptive grammar, I guess) at the Gary Lutz/David Foster Wallace level? Are there grammar rules that you still can’t seem to get a grasp on?
Ben Marcus
This answer contains spoilers…
(view spoiler)[When you answer a question on Goodreads, there is an option to mark the answer as a spoiler. I think I'll do that here, not because I will be revealing key points of plot that, once known, will ruin the book for people, but because my answer might spoil some people's sense of me. I don't think I could ever be obsessed or as ridiculously well-versed in grammar as Lutz or Wallace. My spoiler is that I'm a sounder-outer. I rely on my ear, or the silent device that hears imagined language. My rules are all sub-verbal. I tend to be able to obey the rules of grammar, if that's what's called for, but I usually forget the names of tenses. I do keep grammar books with me and I do consult them regularly, in case there's something specific I need to learn. (hide spoiler)]
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