Wordsmith Talk |
About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us | |||
Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Miscellany The importance of punctuation.
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
The following sentence from a biograpy about the Duke of Alba (16th century) posed problems caused by superfluous comma's:
"The shock tactics, the arrests and repression, the executions and the defeat of invasion attempts, all combined to overawe any possible opposition, and stunned the population into submission."
It seemed like an impossble sentence to me and I read it over and over again . It all became clear when I took three commas's off:
The shock tactics, the arrests and repression and the defeat of invasion attemps all combined to overawe any possible opposition and stunned the population into submission.
In the original sentence I missed the link between the summing up and the conclusive: 'and stunned the population into submission.'
(think this falls under 'puncutation'?)Sorry, punctuation. (some typo's are worth keeping) It was a funny reading experience.
Last edited by BranShea; 05/06/07 10:19 AM.
Moderated by Jackie
Link Copied to Clipboard
Forum Statistics Forums16Topics13,913Posts229,371Members9,182 Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV
9,182 Registered Users
Who's Online Now 0 members (), 803 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters(30 Days) A C Bowden 24
Top Posters wwh 13,858Faldage 13,803Jackie 11,613wofahulicodoc 10,561tsuwm 10,542LukeJavan8 9,919Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210AnnaStrophic 6,511Wordwind 6,296of troy 5,400
Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org