Here are some blogs that poke fun at grammar mistakes of all types:
- lowercase L
- Literally, A Web Log
- Apostrophe Abuse
- Apostrophe Catastrophes
- Apostrophism
- The “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks - This is my favorite because unnecessary quotation marks really annoy me. I appreciate that someone else understands.
What's your favorite punctuation mark? What's your biggest punctuation pet peeve?
7 comments:
My favorite punctuation mark is the left curly brace - {. NOT the right one. Definitely not.
My biggest punctuation pet peeve is exclamation points in blog post titles.
I see the problem with exclamation points in blog post titles.When I got the notification email for your comment, it looked like this:
[keeping feet] New comment on National Puncuation Day!.
The Exclamation Point-Period at the end is a definite no-no, especially on National Punctuation Day.
My favorite punctuation mark is the interrobang!
My favorite punctuation mark is either the comma or the ellipsis. I love the idea of being able to express that i'm thinking more by simply including three little dots...
And my biggest punctuation pet peeve? Probably people putting commas in completely wrong places. They're used where you pause people! If you wouldn't pause there, then don't put one there!
Shouldn't...
"They're used where you pause people!"
...be...
"They're used where you pause, people!"
?
The !
Which my dear elementary school friend always called "the powie mark."
Yes, James, in your sentence "people" is a noun of direct address and should be set off from the sentence by a comma.
If I didn't home school I wouldn't have known that. . .
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