Megan Porter, whos moderating this MOOC, wrote the two blog posts below when she was

a student in the UQ postgraduate grammar class. Those of you who have studied Shakespeare
will be familiar with how she was inspired to write these and will be impressed by how
inspiring her posts are.
Shall I compare a colon to a semicolon?
One announces or introduces and the other links.
Rough grammarians do misuse them often
And forget that they must follow independent clauses.
Sometimes too tired the eye of an editor shines,
And often their worn complexion dims;
They fail to spot colon and semicolon issues,
By chance or natures course untrimmed.
But their eternal editorial skills shall not fade,
Nor will they lose possession of their knowledge.
Nor shall rough grammarians not wander in their shade,
When in eternal perfectly edited lines they survive.
So long as rough grammarians can breathe and see,
So long live editors who can give advice to thee.

To be, or not to be.

That is a sentence fragment.
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the shame of not being able to identify the parts of speech,
or to take a lead pencil against a sea of comma misuse,
and by opposing, end them. To punctuate, to correct
forever more, and by correct to say we end
the heartache, and the thousand natural mistakes
that can be attributed to poor grammar, devoutly wished to be corrected!
To punctuate, perchance to give meaning, aye, theres our grammarian purpose.
For in that pursuit of meaning what errors may come
when we have shuffled over to the grammar exam.
Shifts in tense and mood must give us pausetheres a thing
that makes calamity of keeping sentences consistent.
Who would bear the misuse of case forms,

the subjective, objective, and possessiveboth singular and plural.

Intransitive and transitive verbs, participles, gerunds, and infinitives,
verb phrases, verbal phrases, and phrasal verbs.
The patient merit a worthy grammarian takes,
when they might just want quiet, and makes
to know the difference between coordinating and correlative conjunctions,
to grunt and sweat over a conjunctive adverb.
But that dread of something not quite right,
in a confusing sentence, in its very words,
a grammarian returns, puzzles the will,
and makes them rather fear those ills on the page,
then fly to fellow grammarians whom they think may know.
Thus fear of being wrong makes cowards of us all,
is it a problem with the voiceactive or passive?
Is this word able to have a comparative and superlative form?
With this regard, the current turns us awry,
And we lose the thrust of actionsoft now,
I gaze at my grammar textbook, and try to remember everything.
May all the grammar sins be remembered.