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To: rdb3

What about commas separating a compound predicate of only two parts, when not needed for dramatic pause?


48 posted on 01/12/2006 2:59:15 PM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand

That's the editor in you talking.


73 posted on 01/12/2006 3:17:00 PM PST by Clemenza (Smartest words ever written by a Communist: "Show me the way to the next Whiskey Bar")
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To: firebrand

"What about commas separating a compound predicate of only two parts, when not needed for dramatic pause?"

Gawd, I hat that. Just makes me want to shove a boot up their semicolon.


98 posted on 01/12/2006 3:28:16 PM PST by RouxStir (Peaceful muslim...The Ultimate Oxymoron!)
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To: firebrand

Apostrophe's on plural's.


103 posted on 01/12/2006 3:31:54 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (And taglines, too. I am literally SICK of taglines!!!)
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