Here's a little bit of fun for all my writer peeps!
I'll admit to being a bit of a comma abuser,
but it's better than ending up with something like this:
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| Thank you writing.com |
And of course we want to avoid this:
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| Thank you Cartoonstock.com |
And so--like it or not,
we must do this:
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| Thanks Debbie Ohi Can they send you to jail for being a serial comma killer? What's your worst punctuation abuse? |
That I probably don't know what is is exactly? Fun post.
ReplyDeleteFun post. I'm sure I abuse a lot grammar-wise. Not sure which one is the worst.
ReplyDeleteThe exclamation point! No surprise there...
ReplyDeleteI have the biggest trouble with commas. I can never decide if I'm using too many or too few. I never seem to get it quite right.
ReplyDeleteLaughing at the first picture because this weekend I was at my mother-in-law's for dinner and she came out of the kitchen and said "Let's eat kids!" And I immediately said, "Let's eat comma kids." And then everyone looked at me funny.
I tend to get a little happy with the commas lol! And let's not forget that I'm so excited sometimes so that exclamation point get's a workout :-)
ReplyDeleteLOL! I tend to be guilty of using commas too sparingly!
ReplyDeleteI love word humor. I'm such a nerd! I should keep the comma one posted somewhere. Good grief, I litter my writing with them!
ReplyDeleteCommas, definitely. That comic was made for me.
ReplyDeleteFunny! My worst abuse is the hyphen. I never get them right. Even when I try to outsmart myself and do what I think must be wrong. Sigh. I HEART my great copyeditor :)
ReplyDeleteI love the ellipsis, just because...
ReplyDeleteI made a poster of the first one about commas for my LA classroom this week :-)
ReplyDeleteMine is using the word "quickly" far too much.
ReplyDeleteIn my first MS I used the word over 110 times. I did a word search and deleted all but three and didn't lose any meaning. In fact, the MS actually read better.
I'm also a habitual comma abuser.
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