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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:40 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:16 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:27 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:18 pm
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Yami no Hitokiri From MyWord.info: A word or phrase that clarifies the previous word or phrase and expands meaning. Created to make a statement more clear. Can be set off with commas, dashes or parentheses. So, some examples of an appositive would be: My dog, a German shepherd, could potentially be a police dog. "My computer, which was around during the Mesozoic Era, needs more RAM." In essence, the comma is there not necessarily to pause, but to connect. Aha, I wrote a story for grade 10 english assignment, and in it I used dashes to expand on a meaning, like said in your first line, and she said it was wrong. Either that or I shouldn't have used them. I can't remember the exact comment. >.>
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:29 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:42 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:48 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:35 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:00 pm
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The reader, not the comma, inserts pauses. Grammar apparently "doesn't give a s**t." But how something sounds is what language is all about. We're very keen on how "s**t" sounds when we read it, either in our minds or aloud. We're sensitive to this "s**t."
Artemis.Dreamseeker When I'm reading a sentence with commas, I usually put a pause there. Nothing major, but a slight stop in the rhythm of the sentence. The same goes for my writing. However, when I want to make a more noticeable pause or break, I use a semicolon; like just now. To be quite frank, I can see the overuse of commas as a big deal, but overall I think that it pretty much flows for me; which is saying something, as much as I like proper typing. In other words, I don't share the same dislike of comma use as the rest.
Not to purposefully bash your writing style, but you over-use commas. I like short sentences. You can still write effectively and with detail. You don't need that many commas or semicolons. Just try it. I read On Writing Well by William Zinser and I think it helped.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:05 pm
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Artemis.Dreamseeker When I'm reading a sentence with commas, I usually put a pause there. Nothing major, but a slight stop in the rhythm of the sentence. The same goes for my writing. However, when I want to make a more noticeable pause or break, I use a semicolon; like just now. To be quite frank, I can see the overuse of commas as a big deal, but overall I think that it pretty much flows for me; which is saying something, as much as I like proper typing. In other words, I don't share the same dislike of comma use as the rest.
You are doing exactly what I said was wrong. Especially the semicolon bit.
If you pause naturally in speech, it does NOT indicate that you should use a comma. Yes, you usually pause when you read a comma, but that does not mean pause = comma.
Commas are PURELY syntax.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:24 am
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:33 am
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limp d**k Syntax? The only definition I learned for syntax was the job of a designated word. (e.g. predicate nominitive for a noun that is a complement that restates the subject or direct object for a noun that is recieving the action)
Uh.. nope.
Quote: a. the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. b. the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words. c. the rules or patterns so studied: English syntax. d. a presentation of these: a syntax of English. e. an instance of these: the syntax of a sentence.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:33 pm
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