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Rules Of Grammar

Prompt: Rabindranath Tagore said in Sadhana, "When we come to literature, we find that, though it confirms to the rules of grammar, it is yet a thing of joy: it is freedom itself." How much do you think literature, with fiction or poetry, should stick to the rules of grammar? Or should it, at all?

We need to stick to the rules of grammar. If a word is misspelled, you can over look one word. If too many words are misspelled or the words are out of context, you could miss the message or meaning of the story. You will be like duh? Am I supposed to understand this? What was the author trying to say? Did he waste his time writing his story with misspelled words and grammar issues? One misspelled letter in a word can make a difference. In school, the teachers were big on grammar. Bad grammar makes one seem uneducated. A good writer needs to have good grammar skills. We need to stick to rules of grammar to give the story or a poem a good one and hold a reader's interest. Make no mistake about this.

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