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Created page with "I dunno (comma) Sam. That sentence was somewhat unwieldy I agree, but it said what the writer wanted said. (Should I have put that comma after "agree" do you think? Probably n..."
I dunno (comma) Sam. That sentence was somewhat unwieldy I agree, but it said what the writer wanted said. (Should I have put that comma after "agree" do you think? Probably not.) A few points come to mind:
::: 1) "Give me a ''break''" Brilliant and subtle pun, Sam. World class.
::: 2) When we were all forced to study grammar in the 1950s the world was full of gerunds and split infinitives and even the teachers did not really have their hearts in what they were trying to impart. When was it that Churchill wrote mockingly: "ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put"?
::: 3) I thought about long sentences in literature and almost at once remembered T.S.Eliot whom I had mentioned elsewhere here recently:
:::::::::"And every phrase
:::And sentence that is right (where every word is at home,
:::Taking its place to support the others,
:::The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,
:::An easy commerce of the old and the new,
:::The common word exact without vulgarity,
:::The formal word precise but not pedantic,
:::The complete consort dancing together)
:::Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
:::Every poem an epitaph."
To make matters worse the above sentence starts with another no-no - "And" - as did the following sentence which commences: "And any action is a step to the block....." But in defence of my choosing it, it is a sentence concerning the appropriateness of words. And more than any other recognises their importance.
Where was I?
Aw, forget it.... [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] ([[User talk:AlanE|talk]]) 00:17, 18 June 2016 (EDT)
::: 1) "Give me a ''break''" Brilliant and subtle pun, Sam. World class.
::: 2) When we were all forced to study grammar in the 1950s the world was full of gerunds and split infinitives and even the teachers did not really have their hearts in what they were trying to impart. When was it that Churchill wrote mockingly: "ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put"?
::: 3) I thought about long sentences in literature and almost at once remembered T.S.Eliot whom I had mentioned elsewhere here recently:
:::::::::"And every phrase
:::And sentence that is right (where every word is at home,
:::Taking its place to support the others,
:::The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,
:::An easy commerce of the old and the new,
:::The common word exact without vulgarity,
:::The formal word precise but not pedantic,
:::The complete consort dancing together)
:::Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
:::Every poem an epitaph."
To make matters worse the above sentence starts with another no-no - "And" - as did the following sentence which commences: "And any action is a step to the block....." But in defence of my choosing it, it is a sentence concerning the appropriateness of words. And more than any other recognises their importance.
Where was I?
Aw, forget it.... [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] ([[User talk:AlanE|talk]]) 00:17, 18 June 2016 (EDT)