Strunk & White are very bossy.

[graywarrior]

Sheesh.

[graywarrior]

1. Case in point...

Sentences violating this rule are often ludicrous.

Ludicrous?

[Writer]

2. How dare you use an ampersand,

and not spell out the word "a-n-d"!

[Left Is Write]

3. I like them that way.

[qnr]

4. I believe that that is in their job description. n/t

[graywarrior]

5. Do not break sentences in two

That is so scarey.

[qnr]

7. I thumb my nose at rules of grammar, I didn't drop out of high school after 3 months just to have

to learn rules anyway! :)

[graywarrior]

11. ELEMENTARY RULES OF USAGE

Just that is enough to make me run away and hide.

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Fragments are

that's all I have to say on the matter ;)

[graywarrior]

8. What the fuck does this even mean?

A fragment sentence is one that lacks either a predicate or both a subject and a predicate. In the terms of traditional grammar, it is not a complete sentence. Fragments can never stand alone but must always have clear and close relationship to a context if they are to make sense. Fragments are also called incomplete sentences, but in fact many of them are response utterances, constantly used and easily understood in the give-and-take of conversation but requiring great care in writing lest the situation utterance to which each responds not be immediately clear

[bicentennial_baby]

9. Bingo....

Ah, the source of so must angst and frustration....sigh.

:D

[graywarrior]

12. ELLIPSIS...

...is the use of periods or other marks to indicate the omission of words in a quotation: “Better late than never, but….” Conventionally, use three periods within a sentence. When your ellipsis ends with the end of a phrase, clause, or sentence in the original, use four periods or three plus whatever mark ended the original.

Oh yeah? Well fuck you...

Not you, bicentennial

[Gormy Cuss]

10. Omit needless words.

Irregardless, you don't need them
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[graywarrior]

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