Okay, seriously. Figure it out.

May 16th, 2007 Posted in Grammar, Rant, Sick, Spelling

If I were to look online at some of the adults currently wandering around the internet, I would guess that they didn’t pass their fifth-grade grammar classes. I don’t see what’s so hard about basic concepts. I really don’t.

Run-on sentences are bad news, people. Use punctuation. Punctuation is your friend.

Well, punctuation is your friend, unless you haven’t figured where to put that stray semicolon. News flash: they don’t just fit in wherever you feel like putting them. Don’t even think of using them in doubles. Use one when necessary and fitting, while saving the other for another time.

Oh! Were you aware of the fact
that writing this way makes
people stop at the end of each line?
This looks absolutely
awful, so please
stop
doing it. Now.

Last in this rant, but certainly not the last rant I have in my head, please learn the difference between there and their. It actually hurts my brain to comprehend your sentences when you’ve got random words just tossed about. Look it up if you’re confused. Heck, ask me if you’re unsure!

And with that, I do believe this is enough grammar snobbishness for one night. I should be sleeping, once my sinuses clear up enough for me to breathe.

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