Reality Check by Dave Whamond for June 21, 2020

All great songs. Well i like them.

I feel good,. I knew that I would.

imagine me & you, I do

I like Ralph’s grammar update for “I Feel Good”.

I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name, because there isn’t anyone who can give you no pain, for, yeah, I got nothin’.

Then I knowed love was here to stay – Aerosmith “Walk This Way”

there are places where it completely disappears/why, in America they haven’t spoken it in years!

Dylan is wishing, not describing, for an entirely different kinda “lay”.

All are excused. It’s called “poetic license”. And I’m an English major.

Ain’t got nobody that I can depend on

Stop pickin apart the good ole songs….they ain’t done nuttin to y’all….

B-B-B-Baby, you just ain’t seen n-n-n-nothin’ yet…

And once again, there’s no fix for America.

Bono’s was actually correct for being concise and well formed. Her correction would never make it into today’s books as the average reader would be too worn out from excessive wordage to complete them. If you think otherwise try reading Le Morte De Arthur in Middle English. I actually adapted quickly to the old style but the road to the point of many sentences was exhausting. It took me an entire year and I grew up reading the classics.

Actually, ‘to look for’ is a two-word verb; therefore, the preposition is placed at the end, so ‘what I am looking God’s is correct.

An oldie:

Names have been changed dear

To protect you and I

That teacher would have a seizure if she went to a poetry slam.

Prescriptivists go home!

Actually, “Who (are) you gonna call” is correct. “Whom” is only used with “to whom” or “for whom” (or implied), for example.

What always bothered me was, hey – you’ve had the whole length of the desert to come with a name for that damn horse…………………..

I noticed you didn’t have any “rappers”. Is that because they can’t put more than two words together or is it they are just to stupid to speak any language that is intelligible?

“Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

There’s a bathroom on the right.

Hey teach!

“Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye…”

A grammar cop’s work is never, no way done.

I like singing and playing my guitar, but not in the presence of my school teacher. (Conjunction junction, what’s your function?).

Well, mere bachelor degree teacher, I believe this will correct your poor use of tense: https://youtu.be/NiylEdcIZ2Q?t=40

Whom do you love?

Well, Grammar Lady is quite wrong in panel 5. As for the last panel: “the desert is an ocean with its life underground,” which makes as much sense as the rest of the lyrics. Besides, the horse with no name can still get you saddle sores.

“Her eyes were like THOSE of a cat in the dark…”

“We HAVE TO get out of this place…”

“I can’t get ANY satisfaction…”

There ain’t no cure for them summertime blues.

Elderly man river, that Elderly man river, / he must know something, but he doesn’t say anything…