Comments on: The Grammarian http://mattgemmell.com/2006/04/08/the-grammarian Modesty is Lying Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:48:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joe Wilderson http://mattgemmell.com/2006/04/08/the-grammarian/comment-page-1#comment-41945 Joe Wilderson Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:55:07 +0000 http://mattgemmell.com/2006/04/08/the-grammarian#comment-41945 “The apostrophe is used for conjunction . . . ," intones The Grammarian forebodingly. Quick! Before He notices! The quoted clause should read: “The apostrophe is used for contraction. . ." Conjunction is accomplished with "and" and "as well as," not the apostrophe. You're welcome. Or as we undeclared allies and avatars of The Grammarian throughout the anglosphere see written waaay too often these days: "Your welcome." PS: I reached your place by way of Mr. Mathis's: http://is.gd/5J7an [some would insist on writing "Mathis'," but I prefer Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.) at §7.18 PPS: You're undoubtedly aware of the classic Bob the Angry Flower on apostrophe abuse: http://is.gd/5J7hB “The apostrophe is used for conjunction . . . ,” intones The Grammarian forebodingly.

Quick! Before He notices! The quoted clause should read: “The apostrophe is used for contraction. . .”

Conjunction is accomplished with “and” and “as well as,” not the apostrophe.

You’re welcome. Or as we undeclared allies and avatars of The Grammarian throughout the anglosphere see written waaay too often these days: “Your welcome.”

PS: I reached your place by way of Mr. Mathis’s: http://is.gd/5J7an
[some would insist on writing “Mathis’,” but I prefer Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.) at §7.18

PPS: You’re undoubtedly aware of the classic Bob the Angry Flower on apostrophe abuse: http://is.gd/5J7hB

]]> By: » I’m back, yet again. | monkinetic blog archive http://mattgemmell.com/2006/04/08/the-grammarian/comment-page-1#comment-7911 » I’m back, yet again. | monkinetic blog archive Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:05:43 +0000 http://mattgemmell.com/2006/04/08/the-grammarian#comment-7911 [...] Matt Gemmell has a fierce imagination:His name wasn’t The Grammarian, but he’d never given them anything else to call him. More than that, he was comfortable with it. It conveyed a clarity of purpose, and that was what he was all about. [...] [...] Matt Gemmell has a fierce imagination:His name wasn’t The Grammarian, but he’d never given them anything else to call him. More than that, he was comfortable with it. It conveyed a clarity of purpose, and that was what he was all about. [...]

]]> By: Jimbo http://mattgemmell.com/2006/04/08/the-grammarian/comment-page-1#comment-7863 Jimbo Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:39:27 +0000 http://mattgemmell.com/2006/04/08/the-grammarian#comment-7863 We 'definately' need that in the office. 'Their' are a lot of people in the office 'who's' 'grammer' needs to be sorted. 'Am' not one of them. Whats his daily rate? We ‘definately’ need that in the office. ‘Their’ are a lot of people in the office ‘who’s’ ‘grammer’ needs to be sorted.

‘Am’ not one of them. Whats his daily rate?

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