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Sqwertz wrote:
>jmcquown wrote: > >> No one, other than a teacher, actually cares >> about dangling participles. > >If it dangles, Sheldon does. I see 3 superfluous commas. |
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On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 6:06:58 PM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
> On 6/27/2018 9:59 AM, wrote: > > Sqwertz wrote: > >> jmcquown wrote: > >> > >>> No one, other than a teacher, actually cares > >>> about dangling participles. > >> > >> If it dangles, Sheldon does. > > > > I see 3 superfluous commas. > > > Time for you to go back to school. > > Jill Perhaps. I might have used dashes (or parentheses) for a pair of those commas, to convey the pauses you heard in your mind when you wrote it. However, if I found such a construction in a book I was copy editing, I would restructure the sentence: Other than a teacher, no one actually cares about dangling participles. Factually incorrect, as the dangling participle can lead to misunderstanding, but I'd posit that very few people care about dangling participles. Most human brains can figure out from context what noun the dangling participle was intended to modify. In any event, it's foolish to correct people's grammar on Usenet, unless they have the sentence so twisted up that nobody can understand it. Cindy Hamilton |
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:47:50 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote: >On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:59:43 -0400, wrote: > >> Sqwertz wrote: >>>jmcquown wrote: >>> >>>> No one, other than a teacher, actually cares >>>> about dangling participles. >>> >>>If it dangles, Sheldon does. >> >> I see 3 superfluous commas. > >And you've bitched about it before and have always been wrong. All >those commas are perfectly fine. You're not nearly as smart as you >think you are. Perfectly fine if you're a stuttering dwarf. |
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