http://tampabaygrammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/03/sptimes-writers-punctuation-gaffes.html
The comma after “system” cuts off a restrictive adverbial prepositional phrase. The statement is not from a group of actuarial experts; its from “a national expert….”
Typical. Vinegartits lets this one rip in a post titled SPTimes Writers' Punctuation Gaffes. Oh, it's so important that newspaper writers get punctuation right. Oh, we're all marching to the swamps of illiteracy.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Your versus you're; of versus off.
http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/11/once.html
>I busied myself fend offing the bazillions of widows who infest these cruises trying to pick of my old man or any other old man who is not on a walker or an oxygen tank.<
Again you lampoon Hamilton because of one your/you're error. I bet he knows the difference between "of" and "off".
>I think the the board and the administration should indeed get the publicity they deserve so that an informed public will vote the board slugs out of office and vote in some people who care about education instead of power and who throw state money around without consulting teachers about the issues that affect them. <
Dummy. You want to vote in people who will throw state money around without consulting teachers about the issues? >
There is not one board member who has the courage, the education, or the knowledge of Robert's Rules <
This one's correct. Have you been secretly reading my blog? You're heeding my advice.
>I busied myself fend offing the bazillions of widows who infest these cruises trying to pick of my old man or any other old man who is not on a walker or an oxygen tank.<
Again you lampoon Hamilton because of one your/you're error. I bet he knows the difference between "of" and "off".
>I think the the board and the administration should indeed get the publicity they deserve so that an informed public will vote the board slugs out of office and vote in some people who care about education instead of power and who throw state money around without consulting teachers about the issues that affect them. <
Dummy. You want to vote in people who will throw state money around without consulting teachers about the issues? >
There is not one board member who has the courage, the education, or the knowledge of Robert's Rules <
This one's correct. Have you been secretly reading my blog? You're heeding my advice.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Another!
http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/09/conservative-in-politics-terrorist-in.html
That a deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal doesn’t know basic grammar and punctuation present a sign of how far the country has fallen.
posted by twinkobie at 7:38 PM
Hugh Fayle said...
That a deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal doesn’t know basic grammar and punctuation [present] a sign of [how far the country has fallen].Make sure your verbs agree with the subjects they follow. That is, "present" should be "presents" to concur with the singularity of the noun clause.Further, do not allow an adverbial clause to act as the object of a prepositional phrase.
Hugh Fayle Moore said...
I notice you did not approve the comments I left you. Do you have a reason for not doing so--a reputation of grammatical perfection you have (yet fail) to keep, perhaps?Shame. I don't even know if you understood the corrections I was making in your analyses.I am generally not this conniving, but I read your profile and caught wind of your contentious spirit. Now I am just trying to instigate. We grammarians have little else to do.
Yippee! I had seen the "present" error a while ago but let it slide. After all, I thought it was probably a typo. What's one "s" between friends?
Welcome to the fray, Hugh. I'm not normally conniving either, but I take exception in this cow's case. The reason she started screening her comments in the first place is because she couldn't handle my pulling her up on all of her errors and hypocrisy. Yes, we all make errors, but the way this bitch carries on irks me.
You'll note that she won't answer you. Get used to it. She'll call you names and take cheap shots rather than defend what she writes.
That a deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal doesn’t know basic grammar and punctuation present a sign of how far the country has fallen.
posted by twinkobie at 7:38 PM
Hugh Fayle said...
That a deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal doesn’t know basic grammar and punctuation [present] a sign of [how far the country has fallen].Make sure your verbs agree with the subjects they follow. That is, "present" should be "presents" to concur with the singularity of the noun clause.Further, do not allow an adverbial clause to act as the object of a prepositional phrase.
Hugh Fayle Moore said...
I notice you did not approve the comments I left you. Do you have a reason for not doing so--a reputation of grammatical perfection you have (yet fail) to keep, perhaps?Shame. I don't even know if you understood the corrections I was making in your analyses.I am generally not this conniving, but I read your profile and caught wind of your contentious spirit. Now I am just trying to instigate. We grammarians have little else to do.
Yippee! I had seen the "present" error a while ago but let it slide. After all, I thought it was probably a typo. What's one "s" between friends?
Welcome to the fray, Hugh. I'm not normally conniving either, but I take exception in this cow's case. The reason she started screening her comments in the first place is because she couldn't handle my pulling her up on all of her errors and hypocrisy. Yes, we all make errors, but the way this bitch carries on irks me.
You'll note that she won't answer you. Get used to it. She'll call you names and take cheap shots rather than defend what she writes.
Stop drinking, for goodness' sake. (You WERE drunk, I hope.)
I've highlighted some errors and truly bizarre stuff below.
http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/11/to-junior-grammar-critic.html
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Excuse Me While I Teach Grammar to the New Preside...":
'As the object it should be, as you say, "Michelle and me," but when speaking I hear so many people make this mistake b/c they are over-correcting and not thinking.'
This is another common error. Misplaced modifiers regularly produce hilarious results. Did you mean that when you were speaking the people make the mistake (as you have written) or that the people make the mistake when they were speaking? There is a difference here between your error and Obama's. Most of the English-speaking world knows exactly what Obama meant, but your ambiguity means that I don't know what you are trying to say.
Oh, stop it already. You are out of your depth, or you would not have fallen into a dangling modifier:"but when speaking I hear so many people make this mistake b/c they are over-correcting and not thinking." (The poster didn't - the poster you quoted was quoting another poster.)
Your "when speaking:" is a dangling modifier in a construction in which your purport to correct me for some fugitive error. (Neither of the posters was correcting you. Re-read the posts.) You are not in this league of grammar-and-punctuation savvy, so just retire and lick your wounds, sugarbritiches. If you are interested in grammar-punctuation big-time, keep in contact with my Grammargrinch.blogspot blog. (This IS the Grammargrinch blog. You posted your reply on the wrong blog!?)
Most people's eyes glaze over in the dicussion of grammar. Only a few of us find grammar and punctuation enthralling.
The Grammargrinch blogspot forewarns that grammar is what it is about. I have been suprised at the hits I get on that site. Its aim is newspaper writers. Newspaper writers are interested in correct grammar. They are professinal writers and should be interested. lee
Love and kisses to a grammar wannabe, lee (You sign off twice?)
Wake / sober up! Especially if you're going to plagiarise another person's grammar correction and then slam them.
http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/11/to-junior-grammar-critic.html
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Excuse Me While I Teach Grammar to the New Preside...":
'As the object it should be, as you say, "Michelle and me," but when speaking I hear so many people make this mistake b/c they are over-correcting and not thinking.'
This is another common error. Misplaced modifiers regularly produce hilarious results. Did you mean that when you were speaking the people make the mistake (as you have written) or that the people make the mistake when they were speaking? There is a difference here between your error and Obama's. Most of the English-speaking world knows exactly what Obama meant, but your ambiguity means that I don't know what you are trying to say.
Oh, stop it already. You are out of your depth, or you would not have fallen into a dangling modifier:"but when speaking I hear so many people make this mistake b/c they are over-correcting and not thinking." (The poster didn't - the poster you quoted was quoting another poster.)
Your "when speaking:" is a dangling modifier in a construction in which your purport to correct me for some fugitive error. (Neither of the posters was correcting you. Re-read the posts.) You are not in this league of grammar-and-punctuation savvy, so just retire and lick your wounds, sugarbritiches. If you are interested in grammar-punctuation big-time, keep in contact with my Grammargrinch.blogspot blog. (This IS the Grammargrinch blog. You posted your reply on the wrong blog!?)
Most people's eyes glaze over in the dicussion of grammar. Only a few of us find grammar and punctuation enthralling.
The Grammargrinch blogspot forewarns that grammar is what it is about. I have been suprised at the hits I get on that site. Its aim is newspaper writers. Newspaper writers are interested in correct grammar. They are professinal writers and should be interested. lee
Love and kisses to a grammar wannabe, lee (You sign off twice?)
Wake / sober up! Especially if you're going to plagiarise another person's grammar correction and then slam them.
Lee keeps trying to master commas and fails!
The problem is that no one could be bothered trying to prove this bint wrong. Well, nearly no one.
http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/11/appositives.html
"Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, came to Congress as a single man, but fell in love with a Senate professional staff member, Julia Hart, on a Congressional delegation trip to Afghanistan in 2002.
The comma after "man" splits a compound verb."
Strunk & White Rule 4 - Place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause.
"When the subject is the same for both clauses and is expressed only once, a comma is useful if the connective is but ....
I have heard the arguments, but am still unconvinced."
You're always quoting Strunk & White, Vinegartits. Quote it now.
http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/11/appositives.html
"Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, came to Congress as a single man, but fell in love with a Senate professional staff member, Julia Hart, on a Congressional delegation trip to Afghanistan in 2002.
The comma after "man" splits a compound verb."
Strunk & White Rule 4 - Place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause.
"When the subject is the same for both clauses and is expressed only once, a comma is useful if the connective is but ....
I have heard the arguments, but am still unconvinced."
You're always quoting Strunk & White, Vinegartits. Quote it now.
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