Grammar Check

While it is true that I was an English major it is also true that while I was doing said major I had what I thought was a healthy disdain for prescriptive grammar. Yes, being married to a Ludlow, who is so thoroughly wired to rules, has changed my perspective slightly. Apparently there are people that cling to rules instead of intuitively leaping onto the real meaning of a phrase, sentence, or conversation. And I adore the one I'm married to. But the consequence of all that is that my children have his genes. And Jane has already started grammar checking; she even corrected Eric yesterday! (lest you think my grammar is all that atrocious!

Some examples:
Eric told Jane to put something in one of the garbages. She told him she could only put it in one of the garbages. And then emphasized "I will put it in a garbage." She is kind of hung up on plurals right now and has corrected me MULTIPLE times on this one, even plural verbs (like "is" vs "are")

When we are walking or driving somewhere, Jane will comment on something like "Mommy, this road is really bumpy" and I'll say "Yes, it is a little bumpy" and she'll say "no, Mommy, it's a big bumpy." She's very specific with relative adjectives, etc.

She also understands that one person says thanks/gracias and the other says your welcome/de nada. And I think she thinks they alternate because if she says thank you about something and both Eric and I say your welcome, she gets a little upset and tries to correct us.

Maybe she'll shape me up yet!!