I know that these grammar posts are likely to open me up for harsh ridicule. I am telling people that there are rules to learn, and there are many who get hostile when they are told there are standards. In fact, the source which prompted my writing this post spent most of their post mocking […]
Tag: Parts of Speech
“Conjunctions” or “The Marriage of Thoughts” Pt. 2
I would like to start part 2 of my conjunctions blog post by revisiting one of the examples in part 1. If you recall, I gave an example from English Grammar for Dummies by Geraldine Woods and showed how modern authors would “fix” a run-on sentence. Here is that portion of my previous post. “‘I […]