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To: Karliner

The only thing wrong with your sentence is that it ought to have had a semicolon after the word “No”.

If you’re thinking of a run-on sentence, that’s where two sentences are incorrectly joined with a comma instead of ending the first with a period or joining them with a long “em dash”, colon or semicolon.


12 posted on 05/11/2021 8:30:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Thank-you.When I was learning grammar in eighth grade there were colored folks beating hell out of whites, tossing them out the second story windows with the desks and beating random kids.

Our Grammar books were stamped,condemned, from the 1920’s with whole chapters ripped out of them. I ran a lot, got stabbed, chased, beaten for lunch money, and so much more.

I never learned much that year except how to fight and run. To this day when I think of grammar I’m reminded of that years going from a straight A student to running for my life every day.


15 posted on 05/11/2021 8:44:12 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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