Come visit the internationally acclaimed Grammar Table in front of Charles Library! Ellen Jovin, author of the national bestseller Rebel with a Clause, will be there to answer your most pressing grammar questions, resolve roommate grammar disputes, and generally shoot the linguabreeze. Want to take a mini grammar quiz? There will be (totally voluntary) quiz questions ready on the table for those who dare!
Celebrate the joy of reading and writing! Meet and chat with local authors, enjoy a presentation at 5:30 from Ellen Jovin, bestselling author of Rebel with a Clause, and learn about the writing process. Raffles and light refreshments will be provided, and books will be available for purchase and signing.
On April Fool’s Day, Ellen and the Grammar Table will be at the Hub at Purchase College, where she will be answering grammar and punctuation questions, resolving apostrophe disputes, and helping visitors overcome past grammar traumas. Fun quiz questions will be on hand for those who happen to love taking random grammar quizzes. All languages and language discussions welcome.
Ellen will be hanging out at the Grammar Table in the vendor area. Come say hi! You don’t need to have a grammar question to visit, but grammar questions, comments, and anecdotes will be most welcome. Note: The tournament runs Friday, April 5, to Sunday, April 7, but Ellen will be there only on Saturday.
Bring your dangling participles, squinting modifiers, and ambiguous antecedents to the UIC Quad (East Campus) on Friday, April 12! Ellen will be there to answer the questions of passersby and engage in lively language chat. Sponsored by UIC Department of English; the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics; and the Institute for the Humanities.
Robin Reames will discuss her new book, The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself, which explores how rhetoric—the art of persuasion—can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony. An associate professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, Robin will be joined in conversation by Ellen Jovin. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
Ellen Jovin will be bringing her Grammar Table to John Jay College on the afternoon of April 15 to answer grammar questions and talk language with students, faculty, and staff. This event will be of sentimental significance as Ellen taught writing as an adjunct in the English department for several years when she first moved to New York City in the 1990s!
Ellen will set up her Grammar Table in front of the bookstore from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. At 6:30 she will give an interactive and humorous talk with fun grammar questions. (That was an intentional and self-aware adjectival use of the word “fun.”) This event is free and all are welcome! (Could have used a comma before “and” in the last sentence, but those are short independent clauses, so an executive punctuation decision was made.)