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Figging Mint:
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May not be the week for it, 'til Sunday anyway.
Figging Mint:
--- Quote from: shades of grey on October 05, 2011, 06:27:59 AM ---So do I. Never really have lessons on grammar that I remember. But then again I may have been staring out of the window at the time.
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*robot voice*
Activate subliminal grammar coding. Parsing and usage checklists -confirm.
Prepare distraction mechanism. Preliminary albedo checklist - confirm.
Release distraction mechanism
*shades voice*
"Oooh shiny!" "And who's that boy over there?"
*robot voice*
Target acquired.
Target confirmed.
Inject first grammar series. *hiss* *hiss* *hiss*
Proceed to active distraction recovery protocols
Snowleopard:
You might also try - The Transitive Vampire by Karen E. Gordon.
She's also done - The Well Tempered Sentence. Getting your grammar with some humor.
Dina:
Well, according to a comment on the video FM posted "The Oxford comma is the difference between "We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin" (3 attending the party) and "We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin." (2 attending, and both are strippers)", I will say that, as a Spanish native speaker, I hate the comma before the "and". In Spanish, it's a mistake. And I have problems using it in Englsh, even when the paper reviewers always add it to my texts.
Darkshore:
The Oxford Comma is really more of a style choice really. I think Oxford actually dropped it recently, there was a twitter hashtag and all that jazz.
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