Mr. 5020
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This is even better when read in Christopher Walken's voice.
To the OP: the college I'm in counts off for the Oxford comma.
The Serial comma is good, right, and proper
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To the OP: the college I'm in counts off for the Oxford comma.
Thunder's Muse
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Mr. 5020
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There's only two seminaries around here. It's all geography.You should leave that place.lain:
Arthur Brain
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Wow Kmo, this thread is almost as boring interesting as that one about sprouts...
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I like serial...:chew:Wow Kmo, this thread is almost asboringinteresting as that one about sprouts...
No (Jn 8:36). :Ninja:
I had the finest English teacher on the planet. She edited English books! She would disagree with you.
Our first lesson was to learn to spell her name properly: Mrs. Kwiatkowski.
We filled the entire blackboard with diagrammed sentences. :jump:
You're off topic: The Serial comma is good, right, and proper
Now, the first thing I notice is he spelled out comma, instead of adding it, which is confusing.
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GFR7
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I noticed this back in the '90s: Using many commas, which once was the mark of highbrow and proper writing, became passe, and the run-on sentence began to look more professional:
Old way: They are, if anything, beginning to move in the opposite direction, likely due to an increased understanding of, and interest in, the new purview.
New: They are if anything beginning to move in the opposite direction likely due to an increased understanding of - and interest in - the new purview.
That's just comma sense.
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Thunder's Muse
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You use a comma if the phrase could not stand on its own.
For example:
If I didn't know any better, I'd say that TH was trying to annoy me with that last post.
For example:
If I didn't know any better, I'd say that TH was trying to annoy me with that last post.
[From Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, Chapter 2, Lesson 2]
"In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last
Thus write,
•red, white, and blue
•honest, energetic, but headstrong
•He opened the letter, read it and made a note of its contents."
There's only two seminaries around here. It's all geography.
If they can't even get grammar right then how will they get theology right?? :shocked:
Wow Kmo, this thread is almost asboringinteresting as that one about sprouts...
It isn't my fault that you aren't fond of the finer things in life, like sprouts and correct grammar. Philistine.
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