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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

remark

I think the following remark was made by Mr. M and want to ask how much can you do without and on how many of the grammar rules can you exercise personal discretions power when making a remark? I am not here to rehash Mr.M's old anger.

I think it could be called a "remark" or a personal opinion or any other appropriate terms.

(Whole d____ post finally deleted -- after initial parings by Nona and other mods -- as unintelligible but evidently unrelated to the thread -- MM)
  

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Believer, I'm not sure what your question is ?

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Believer, I'm not sure what your question is ?
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Hi Nona,

Let me try to ask you again. In regard to the grammar of the remark, it seems to have been constructed without regard to grammar rules and it is consists of fragmented phrases and sentences crudely connected with dashes. Is it OK to write like that? ( I think Mr. M is a great guru and educator .)

e.g.

whole d___ post ... Why not,
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Actually it is ok apart from missing the initial 'The'. . The dashes are supposed to represent one long dash, a punctuation mark, so overall the sentence is fine.We often take shortcuts when we are writing informally, in the same way that we make shortcuts in our speech.
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Do you know where I can find the rules for dashes, Nona? I've been curious about those, since I've never read a thing about 'em, so I just distribute them how I've seen them used.
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