21 Mar 2007
Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves
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Read This Intelligent and Informative and Interesting Blog Entry (especially if you want a good hint about when NOT to use commas)
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "You use a comma where an and would be appropriate - where the modifying words are all modifying the same thing to the same degree: It was a...
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Tracked: March 17, 2007 11:14 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "You use a comma where an and would be appropriate - where the modifying words are all modifying the same thing to the same degree: It was a...
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Tracked: March 17, 2007 11:14 PM
Commas & Colons & Semicolons, Oh My!
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) A classic use of the colon is as a kind fulcrum between two antithetical or oppositional statements. p. 119 So when do you use a semicolon? As we...
Weblog: JennaMiller
Tracked: March 18, 2007 2:13 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) A classic use of the colon is as a kind fulcrum between two antithetical or oppositional statements. p. 119 So when do you use a semicolon? As we...
Weblog: JennaMiller
Tracked: March 18, 2007 2:13 PM
When do we use the stickers?
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Tracked: March 18, 2007 7:57 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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What Goes UP Must Come Down
Excerpt: Assuming a sentence rises into the air with the initial capital letter and lands with a soft-ish bump at the full stop, the humble comma can keep the sentence aloft all right, like this, UP, for hours if necessary, UP,...
Weblog: JenniferPrex
Tracked: March 19, 2007 8:51 PM
Excerpt: Assuming a sentence rises into the air with the initial capital letter and lands with a soft-ish bump at the full stop, the humble comma can keep the sentence aloft all right, like this, UP, for hours if necessary, UP,...
Weblog: JenniferPrex
Tracked: March 19, 2007 8:51 PM
Protestants and Catholics and Commas
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) pg. 70 "Verily, I say unto thee, This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise." "Verily I say unto thee this day, Thou shalt be with me...
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Tracked: March 19, 2007 9:03 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) pg. 70 "Verily, I say unto thee, This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise." "Verily I say unto thee this day, Thou shalt be with me...
Weblog: MargaretJones
Tracked: March 19, 2007 9:03 PM
My name is Matt Henderson; I have a semicolon problem
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The main reason I recall this shameful teenage epiphany, however, is that in my mission to blast little Kerry-Anne out of the water, I pulled out (literally) all...
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Tracked: March 20, 2007 8:21 AM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The main reason I recall this shameful teenage epiphany, however, is that in my mission to blast little Kerry-Anne out of the water, I pulled out (literally) all...
Weblog: MatthewHenderson
Tracked: March 20, 2007 8:21 AM
The Tune of Punctuation
Excerpt: “On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune.”Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: March 20, 2007 3:30 PM
Excerpt: “On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune.”Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: March 20, 2007 3:30 PM
Whose comma?
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: March 20, 2007 4:02 PM
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Why Commas!!
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Commas that come in pairs" This is where comma usage all starts getting tricky. The first rule of bracketing commas is that you use them to mark both...
Weblog: DerekTickle
Tracked: March 20, 2007 5:53 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Commas that come in pairs" This is where comma usage all starts getting tricky. The first rule of bracketing commas is that you use them to mark both...
Weblog: DerekTickle
Tracked: March 20, 2007 5:53 PM
Oh Tose Crazy Commas
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Tracked: March 20, 2007 7:44 PM
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A Reference Novel?
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Where In The Heck Did Punctuation Come From Anyway?
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "But although I still swoon every time I look at this particular semicolon from 1494, it was not, as it turns out, the first time a human being...
Weblog: BethanyBouchard
Tracked: March 20, 2007 10:15 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "But although I still swoon every time I look at this particular semicolon from 1494, it was not, as it turns out, the first time a human being...
Weblog: BethanyBouchard
Tracked: March 20, 2007 10:15 PM
Anyone Else Feel This Way?
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The big final rule for the comma is one that you won't find in any books by grammarians. It is quite easy to remember, however. The rule is:...
Weblog: BethanyMerryman
Tracked: March 20, 2007 11:56 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The big final rule for the comma is one that you won't find in any books by grammarians. It is quite easy to remember, however. The rule is:...
Weblog: BethanyMerryman
Tracked: March 20, 2007 11:56 PM
window keyboard hand
Excerpt: “On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune.”...
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Tracked: March 21, 2007 10:15 AM
Excerpt: “On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune.”...
Weblog: Stuff That I Write About Things
Tracked: March 21, 2007 10:15 AM
Reflection on pages 68-131
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) I usually do not like to use semicolons or colons. In fact, I hardly ever use colons. I found this book to be very helpful in when to...
Weblog: JennaMiller
Tracked: March 22, 2007 9:38 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) I usually do not like to use semicolons or colons. In fact, I hardly ever use colons. I found this book to be very helpful in when to...
Weblog: JennaMiller
Tracked: March 22, 2007 9:38 PM
Oh, the humble little comma
Excerpt: …the humble comma can keep the sentence aloft all right, like this, UP, for hour if necessary, UP, like this, UP, sort-of bouncing, and then falling down, and then UP it goes again, assuming you have enough additional things to...
Weblog: EllenEinsporn
Tracked: April 3, 2007 10:46 PM
Excerpt: …the humble comma can keep the sentence aloft all right, like this, UP, for hour if necessary, UP, like this, UP, sort-of bouncing, and then falling down, and then UP it goes again, assuming you have enough additional things to...
Weblog: EllenEinsporn
Tracked: April 3, 2007 10:46 PM
Visualize the Semi-Colon
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Expectation is what these stops are about; expectation and elastic energy.Like internal springs, they propel you forward in a sentence towards more information..." I never bothere...
Weblog: JaraWhite
Tracked: April 3, 2007 11:00 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Expectation is what these stops are about; expectation and elastic energy.Like internal springs, they propel you forward in a sentence towards more information..." I never bothere...
Weblog: JaraWhite
Tracked: April 3, 2007 11:00 PM
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