March 4th is National Grammar day. The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar believes that the clear communication fostered by good grammar is a critical component of peaceful human relations. Visit their website for at nationalgrammarday.com for more information about this celebration, which shows how the quest for better grammar can be fun!

The host for National Grammar Day is Mignon Fogarty, the author of Grammar Girls's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.

Two other amusing grammar books are Kitty Burns Florey's Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: the Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences and Eats, Shoots, & Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss.

For more serious books about grammar, try Webster's New World English Grammar Handbook or The Brief Penguin Handbook, which addresses writing for the web. Don't forget Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, the granddaddy of all grammar books.

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said it best: “Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”