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Not only that, but he posts what looks, on the face of it, to be a perfectly reasonable and to-the-point post and then periods it with one of his so-called puns. We are left to wonder whether he was serious or just building up to the punch line.
BTW, I found TEd's I think that, by doing so, I am able… to be more, not less jarring than maahey's I think, that by doing so, I am able…
There seem to be two major schools of thought on comma usage, the grammatical and the rhetorical. The former assigns comma location according to the sense of the sentence and the latter according to the auditory flow. Grammarians taught in the grammatical school might, for example, scoff at the phrase "my wife Margie is on holiday" wondering what of the speaker's other wives. The follower of the rhetorical school, on the other hand, would not write, "my wife, Margie, is…" since he would not pause in speech around the name Margie.
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Punctuation
maahey 03/30/2003 7:00 PM ![]()
Re: Punctuation
Faldage 03/30/2003 9:00 PM ![]()
Where to put the comma:
TEd Remington 03/30/2003 10:14 PM ![]()
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AnnaStrophic 03/30/2003 10:56 PM ![]()
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Faldage 03/30/2003 11:51 PM ![]()
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Capfka 03/31/2003 6:57 AM ![]()
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Wordwind 03/31/2003 9:37 AM ![]()
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Capfka 03/31/2003 9:48 AM ![]()
I know where you can put it...
musick 03/31/2003 3:40 PM ![]()
Re: I know where you can put it...
Capfka 03/31/2003 4:18 PM ![]()
Please, allow me to differ...
Jackie 04/03/2003 1:15 AM ![]()
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Faldage 03/31/2003 10:29 AM ![]()
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of troy 04/02/2003 1:35 PM
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