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#punctuation

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No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.


Lynne Truss


#punctuation #food

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.


Laura Linney


#am #aware #character #clues #everything

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.


Isaac Marion


#punctuation #change

To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.


Lynne Truss


#humor #punctuation #writing #humor

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.


Red Red Rover


#dreams #editing #grammar #hopes #ideas






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