At 01:23 PM 1/21/97 -0500, Andrew Huang wrote:

	Yes, I'm going to be incredibly anal. But these things have been
annoying the Hell out of me ever since I finally got them right myself.
Anyways, here are some commonly broken grammar rules that I seem to be
finding here a lot.

Very well said.  And now I'd like to re-post something sent to the list over
a year ago about one of *my* pet peeves:

Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 17:15:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Sailor Gallifrey <omega@io.org>
To: fanfic@andrew.cais.com
Subject: Re: Punctuation.


Hi!

	Yes, quoted dialogue that does not end a sentence uses a comma 
instead of a period.  As in:

	"But I don't like commas," he said.

	Only periods are replaced, not question or exclamation marks. As in:

	"I prefer to use exclamation marks, you bastard!" he screamed.

	When the order of the sentence is reversed (when the description 
starts before the quote) the comma is used when the description connects
the dialogue. As in:

	He screamed, "I said that already!"
			or
	He then scratched his head and said, "I really need some sleep."

	Otherwise, it's just a simple sentence. As in:

	He scratched his head again.  "Where's my bed?"

That's all for today's class.  There will be a test tomorrow! ^_^

--Omega



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