Much research in composition and rhetoric has shown that grammar is most effectively learned in the context of one’s own speaking, writing, and reading rather than by way of formal study of grammatical rules and drills and sentence diagrams and that sort of thing.
Some local television producers in Nashville circa 1984 thought that, maybe, you could help teach grammar on TV through something like a sitcom. That said, from the annals of pedagogical arcana department at cac.ophony.org, comes this bit of good old fashioned educational television. Enjoy this 2 minute clip.
Man, the 1980s were bad to Sly & The Family Stone… here they are, far from San Francisco, as a backup band for the Grammar Mechanic.
I guess disco really did them in.
What a find!
The mom bears a striking resemblance to one of Amy Sedaris’s characters.
Oh, if only there were a “grammar computer” to solve all our problems.
But where’s the end?? I want to see more!
So good, I had to steal it!
Grammar rulez!