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To: Lee Heggy
I like these grammar threads but when commenting I always have a fear that I will make a grammatical error myself or an error in punctuation or spelling.

And starting a new paragraph with a conjunction would be the death of me.

Damn, it's difficult to be a perfectionist.

54 posted on 02/25/2005 12:10:44 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Graybeard58

"And starting a new paragraph with a conjunction would be the death of me."

Nor would I not be as fearfull as you in such conjunctive dilemmas. And spelling is my baddest mistake when hurried.


62 posted on 02/25/2005 12:19:02 PM PST by Lee Heggy (Sorry, I don't do Windows.)
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To: Graybeard58
And starting a new paragraph with a conjunction would be the death of me.

Is that how you get conjuctivitis?

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

158 posted on 02/25/2005 2:38:53 PM PST by JohnnyZ ("Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's all right now." - Clint Eastwood)
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To: Graybeard58

"...I always have a fear that I will make a grammatical error myself or an error in punctuation or spelling."


Then you might appreciate this little ditty I picked up along the way somewhere, which addresses one of my pet peeves:

The possessive of it is just its
But its usage gives people the fits.
They expect to see
An apostrophe.
But you shorten it is when it's it's.


168 posted on 02/25/2005 3:15:02 PM PST by texasbluebell
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