Guest presenter Captain Jack Sparrow, along with musical guests The Failed Turner Music Projects, a special Lifetime Achievement Award and the CM HOF Class of 2008.
laurel wrote:MEGAN USED AN APOSTROPHE BEAUTIFULLY!
yes, i do point out the good once in awhile.
That is because I'm an English major and actually know proper grammar. I do not, however, go around pointing out everyone's mistakes like Laurel does.
How else are people going to learn? You're clearly not helping them out!
Maybe they'll continue to spell definitely with an A...
besides most of the comma placement comments are directed at Neil... and Neil has a stalkerish obsession with Laurel... so she uses the comma placement comments to scare him back to within the legal boundaries of his restraining order.
Last edited by Lando on 3/20/2008, 9:47 pm, edited 2 times in total.
actually, it's an optional comma. the last item before an 'and' in a list may have a comma after it, but it is not required; it's a matter of stylistics.
When I was taught grammar at school (a very long time ago, before some CMers were born) I was taught that you shouldn't put a comma before an and, but that this was one of the less strict grammatical rules, so you could put the comma there if you really wanted.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
interesting. When i was taught, the comma before the and was the rule, although we were told that it would not be wrong to omit it. Of course me mam always felt bad that we had an inferior education over here.
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Apparently it's called an Oxford comma or a Harvard comma but is more accepted in US english than UK english.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
Seriously guys. Where is the spelling nazi thread? haha.
-Sarah Goodbye you liar, Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything Then you think you will inspire Take apart your head (and I wish I could inspire) Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
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