The Importance of Punctuation and Grammar Could Be Life or Death!

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Here is another one I just read in an article about someone's father who traveled so much he had a lifetime travel pass with American Airlines. Talking about a room in their house where the father staged his travel articles: "He stored everything he collected while traveling in the basement."

Trying to think back to junior high grammar. Is that a dangling modifier?
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I worked writing policy for a large county department. On 9/11, my supervisor called me into her office to discuss my use of a single comma. The horrific events of the day overshadowed my supposed mistake. I try to adhere to "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr. in my writing.
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During the oral defense of a PHD thesis, one of the examiners said: “On page 5 paragraph 3 the second sentence has a period. Why?”

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As I was a prooofreader at a newspaper on Long Island for many years, it frustrated me to see so many mistakes that I don't think are taught correctly in schools these days. Not just the punctuation, but the spelling and correct use of words that sound the same but are spelled different. The worst frustration is the use of 'every day'! Every day is TWO words, unless it's used before a noun. Using the correct form of contractions can be very confusing. No wonder the English language is so hard to learn.
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As I was a prooofreader at a newspaper on Long Island for many years, it frustrated me to see so many mistakes that I don't think are taught correctly in schools these days. Not just the punctuation, but the spelling and correct use of words that sound the same but are spelled different. The worst frustration is the use of 'every day'! Every day is TWO words, unless it's used before a noun. Using the correct form of contractions can be very confusing. No wonder the English language is so hard to learn.
It seems to be an everyday occurrence; I see it written incorrectly every day.
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It seems to be an everyday occurrence; I see it written incorrectly every day.




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But English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

And for any non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead” and “read” is pronounced like “lead”.
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And punctuation makes this sentence perfectly acceptable:

that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is

Scroll down for the punctuated sentence:













That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.
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BK, that lovely portrait, did you draw it? I have a black and white one of me, in a hat, a technique we were taught to do by looking into a mirror.
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BK, that lovely portrait, did you draw it? I have a black and white one of me, in a hat, a technique we were taught to do by looking into a mirror.
I did. But hubby says I cheated and need to add 25 pounds and same amount of years! Yet he still lives. ROFL.
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Artistic license. I love it!
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I did. But hubby says I cheated and need to add 25 pounds and same amount of years! Yet he still lives. ROFL.
You should put that on the joke thread!
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