punctuation stuff

[slaymesoftly]

This is a post in a writing blog that is entertaining and has some useful information about using punctuation when we're not sending tweets or texts to our friends. I'm a teensy bit hesitant to put it up here because it has throughout some deliberate examples of poor punctuation and spelling that I'm hoping everyone will realize are deliberate and

Comments

[molliemole]

I think you're right about the verb tense in the first sentence. And I saw a sentence that should have had its two independent clauses separated with a semicolon rather than a comma. But other than those two places, this was spot on. It's sad that all the problems discussed here could be prevented if only grammar and punctuation were taught in schools.

[slaymesoftly]

I'm not sure about that. They are taught, just not in enough depth to keep things from going wrong. :) I think she was more worried about finding intentionally misused punctuation in formal writing than she is about the actual rules for proper use. You do see a lot of creative punctuation in fiction writing - most of which probably seemed like a good idea at the time, but is just annoying to the reader. I think that was her focus.