Truk

From: "Julian Fong" <fong_jh@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jhfong@aol.com
To: ffml@anifics.com
Subject: [FFML] Re: [Love Hina][Spoilers] Foxheart chpt. 3
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:11:30 +0000


"Bryan Truskolaski" <truk77@hotmail.com> wrote:

But Highpoints had one other thing going for it; the
d�cor. Almost every square inch of the bar�s walls was

were

"Was" is correct.  The subject of the sentence is "inch", not "walls".
"Walls" is the object of a prepositional phrase.

Really? That just doesn't sound right.

The posters and the films they promoted were often the
topic of lengthy discussions among the bar�s patrons.
Which was entirely the point. To keep the conversation
fresh and the customers coming back the posters were

coming, back

coming back, the

Mistake on my part. I meant what you put.

"Naru told me that Keitaro found me so wasted I could
barely walk and he had to half drag half carry me
home."

Ok, I think there is supposed to be something on the
'half drag half carry" part but I'm not sure what. Is it a
comma, a hyphen, or am i just crazy?

Both!  I'd prefer "half-drag, half-carry".

I thought so.

The blue haired girl rested her elbows up on the table
and lazily let her face rest in her hands. "Yeah,
you�re right. I guess I�m no one to talk. Yusuke�s
really happy and the girl he�s engaged to is very
nice. I should just accept the fact that I was never
anything more than an employee to Yusuke and try and
be happy for them but�"

them, but. It can't be just me, can it?

In some of these cases the comma can be optional.  Like in between "cases"
and "the" in the previous sentence.

Oh.

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I see. Thanks.

Truk
"Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone" - John Mellencamp

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