Topic: A reminder about proper comma usage

+Anonymous A — 13.5 years ago #18,956

The comma (",")

*The comma is frequently used where it has no place whatsoever, and is seldom used where it belongs. Here follow some examples:

Wrong: I like animals, they're great.
Wrong: I like animals they're great.
Right: I like animals. They're great.
Right: I like animals --- they're great.
Right: I like animals; they're great.

Wrong: I don't care much for humans though.
Right: I don't care much for humans, though.
Right (different structure): However, I don't care much for humans.

Wrong: Hi everyone, welcome to the grammar party!
Right: Hi, everyone! Welcome to the grammar party!
Right: Hi, everyone --- welcome to the grammar party!
Right (different structure): Hi, everyone, and welcome to the grammar party!
Right (different structure): Hi and welcome to the grammar party, everyone!

+ducky !LZ0E5ojVGY — 13.5 years ago, 1 minute later[T] [B] #231,631

what,,,,,,,

+Anonymous C — 13.5 years ago, 14 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #231,645

No, a taste test.

+Anonymous D — 13.5 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #231,708

@previous (C)
I was in a coma at the time.

+Anonymous E — 13.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #231,710

@previous (D)
rimshot

+Anonymous F — 13.5 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #231,727

@231,631 (ducky !LZ0E5ojVGY)

He's subtly suggesting you should do a presentation in your English class on this while immitating Kimmo's crazed style.

+Syntax — 13.5 years ago, 53 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #231,812

@OP

Normally I power up such non-sense re rules rules of Inglish by using Mark Twain and Shakespeare in defense and defiance of rules.

Decided to look for a modern source so look C

http://www.writingforward.com/grammar/grammar-rules/breaking-grammar-rules-in-poetry-writing

Writing Poetry Without Grammar Rules

Poets don’t always follow the rules, which is why poetry is attractive to writers who are especially creative, rebellious, and enjoy coloring outside the lines.

Grammar rules, particularly spelling and punctuation, are nothing more than a creative tool for many poets who choose to dismiss these rules altogether or use the them to decorate and add aesthetic elements to a poem.

Many poets have skirted grammar with great success. Many more have failed. E.E. Cummings is well known for giving grammar the proverbial finger, but he takes his anarchy one step further and actually alters basic sentence structure, and manages to do so quite effectively.

So so, busy, with; work n its almost, tyme, to do my 10 miles on the Beach n its, so nice; a day, Or otherwise, I wood dig up E.E. Cummings in defiance and C wot he haz, to, say too, us.

Bless Texting cause jest who who wood stuck in ; , but yes !! has its place in SMS. HowSomEver people end up wasting BW as result of ; : " ,,,,,, ;,

(Edited 38 seconds later.)

+Anonymous H — 13.5 years ago, 7 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #232,015

something about building a snowman

+Anonymous I — 13.5 years ago, 17 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #232,031

@231,812 (Syntax )
You, Sir, are no poet.

·Syntax — 13.5 years ago, 8 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #232,036

@previous (I)

No poet?! I didn't know it!
No Poet I no it
I am not no Poet
I am this one
Who Poet where I am not
[Well, I ain't no poet but I'll try like all the rest]
That line stolen from Benny and the Jets and all the rest.

·Anonymous I — 13.5 years ago, 33 seconds later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #232,037

@previous (Syntax )
Your're an idiot.

+Anonymous J — 13.5 years ago, 2 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[T] [B] #232,139

@previous (I)
Hell yeah

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