This is a plea for the Language, pruned for the Internet, whittled down to bite-sized chunks, as naked as a tree in winter without the punctuation, spelling, or grammar required for, when the season's full, expressing its own majesty. Instant messaging. andemail. done skrood it all up
deluge of newborn writers go about the craft of writing. Why Webmasters and professional bloggers should keep reading: If your blog or website is one of several possible windows into your company, and the copy doesn't exhibit some grasp of the three pillars - good punctuation, correct spelling, and proper grammar - what does that say about you to a potential, and unfamiliar, client? It doesn't say you're E. E. Cummings (or e e cummings as is often mistaken). in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame baloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful (formatting issues above. click Punctuation Punctuation is very. important it tellsyouwhere to stop and where to go and keeps yourprose from looking like a jumbled runon (that should be hyphenated) mess of words that you say is just like William Faulkner with his, 142 word (so should that) sentences but its (that should have an apostrophe) not just like him; afterall. We nostrich.net for more impassioned defense of punctuation. Grammar Grammar is like math. It's made of memorization and logic. It is okay, on occasion, to break the more nit-picky grammar rules if usage is tremendously common, or if the correct version is too awkward. Ending a sentence with a preposition is okay. It makes the reader/listener feel you're a good person to talk to. But one mistake that drives most grammarians up wall (aside from beginning a new paragraph with a conjunction) is overcorrecting. Watch a newscaster, or scripted character, and note how many times they use a phrase like "between you and I." They're trying to be proper and screw it up because they don't know the rule. The rule is: prepositions always have an object. If it's an object of the sentence and preposition then it can't be a subject. "I" is a subject. "Me" is the object. It should read "just between you and me." "Lay" and "lie" are tricky. Things that move lay themselves down by lying down. They often lay down their bags before they lie down. Others: It's "could have," would have," and "should have." Never is it "could of." "Then" is what happened next. "Than" goes with "less" and "more." Latin is hard, especially when abbreviated. "e.g." is an example. "i.e." puts it in other words. "Et cetera" is shortened to "etc." Periods and commas go inside the quotes. There are fewer glasses of water, but there is less water. Never is there fewer water or less glasses of water. The word "farther" denotes distance. "Further" is a matter of degree. The house is farther down the road. Let's discuss this further. grammar misspelled words. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok:A Plea To Online Grammar Butchers
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