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merchimerch) wrote2006-04-18 12:57 pm
merchimerch) wrote2006-04-18 12:57 pm
grammar hubris
Oh I have lousy grammar and a thick skull; I am a wretch.
I got so proud because in this one sentence I found an adjectival phrase and was very very careful not to put any commas in it, only to find (after Prof. H. took a look at it) that there was an adjectival phrase earlier in *the very same sentence* that I had thrown commas into.
harumph
I got so proud because in this one sentence I found an adjectival phrase and was very very careful not to put any commas in it, only to find (after Prof. H. took a look at it) that there was an adjectival phrase earlier in *the very same sentence* that I had thrown commas into.
harumph
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Basically I'm addicted to putting commas into phrases like "The online journal, Image and Narrative," because you use them in parenthetical phrases. It's something I find really hard to catch, when I make the error and was really proud when I caught myself before putting a comma into the phrase "Uzbek pop singer Sevara Nazarkhan" but I put them into the phrase above which was in the very same sentence (*headdesk*).