A Guide to Recognizing Your Punctuation

[sheerpoetry]

As several of you know (well, mainly those of you with whom I converse on Twitter), I am editing/beta-ing stories for someone on fanfiction.net. Allegedly, she was once an English teacher, but her command of the English language is...a bit stunted. Periods where commas should be (and vice versa); incorrect use of parentheses, quotation marks, and

Comments

[chloris]

Awww, the poor semicolon. It gets no respect but it's one of my favorites. Just say no to comma splices! Save a semicolon today.

[sheerpoetry]

I love the semi-colon; it's probably my favorite. :)