punctuation!

[readingmyheart]

As I turned the last page in Lynne Truss's "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves", I decided to turn over a new leaf. I believe in punctuation; I must begin to better employ it in my livejournal. That's all. Also, everyone should read that book. If you don't even like punctuation now, you will love it by the end, and you MAY even know how to use it properly.

Comments

you must be british...

[dreadpirate14]

you even punctuate like one!!! :)

BOOOOOOOO

[broomballer]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Re: BOOOOOOOO

[readingmyheart]

boo you, bert! (ok, i just wanted to say that cause the sentence is kinda fun the way it flows off of my tongue)

Grammar

[anonymous]

Grammar fact for your Friday...
Did you know you don't have to use a comma to separate the last item in a list from the previous one? (i.e., "Eats, Shoots and Leaves") In this case, it would be for a title of a book; but, that is now accepted as contemporary. There you have it. ;)

Re: Grammar

[readingmyheart]

that actually is one of my least favorite rules of all times. I find the Oxford Comma almost always necessary for the clarity of the sentence, so it really bugs me when it's not there.