Hardy's school of grammar

[AZOffaly]

My name is AZOffay and I'm a comma-addict. Sometimes, unbeknownst to myself, I insert commas all over the place, whether they are needed, or not. It must make my, often rivetting, otherwise, contributions very hard to read. I usually insert commas where I would be pausing, in a spoken sentence.

I'm good with apostrophes, though

[Main Street]

[muppet]

My name is AZOffay and I'm a comma-addict. Sometimes, unbeknownst to myself, I insert commas all over the place, whether they are needed, or not. It must make my, often rivetting, otherwise, contributions very hard to read. I usually insert commas where I would be pausing, in a spoken sentence.

I'm good with apostrophes, though

Bloody comma-ner.

[AZOffaly]

I prefer Comma-nist

[muppet]

I prefer Comma-nist

Comma-gain?

[AZOffaly]

One of my pet hates is the misuse of "literally" instead of "figuratively". "Jaysus, when they scored my head literally exploded."  No it didn't. Your brain might have alright.

[Declan]

Always liked these

[Shamrock Shore]

Or being left on tenderhooks.......

That's ok in my book depending on how you frame the term.

Eh - the phrase is actually correctly tenterhooks BC, that was my point.

Or am i missing something in your post?

[brokencrossbar1]

Or being left on tenderhooks.......

That's ok in my book depending on how you frame the term.

Eh - the phrase is actually correctly tenterhooks BC, that was my point.

Or am i missing something in your post?

Maybe too subtle

[muppet]

One of my pet hates is the misuse of "literally" instead of "figuratively". "Jaysus, when they scored my head literally exploded."  No it didn't. Your brain might have alright.

Jamie Redknapp:

"The ball literally gave him a haircut."
"Alonso and Sissoko have been picked to literally sit in front of the back four."
"He's literally just eaten the fourth official."
"Scholes has such a great footballing brain. He'll see a picture in his head and literally paint it in front of you."
"Center forwards have the ability to make time stand still. And when Chopra got the ball, it literally did just that."
"He's literally sold the defender a dummy"
'These balls now - they literally explode off your feet.'
"The crowd behind the goal are literally going insane."

This also deserves an honourable mention:

"Steven Gerrard makes runs into the box better than anyone. So does Frank Lampard."

[Rossfan]

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"Should of" and its related forms want to make me hack my own head off with a blunt, rusty knife.

+1.
It really gets to me that educated people come out with that so often in these parts.
Is it a Nordie thing ? 

[NetNitrate]

Another grammar thread. Yawn. You'll have the lot of us slipping into a comma.

[Oraisteach]

I'll be content if Hardy resists the urge to perform colon-oscopies.  Just want to be sure he keeps his ellipsis away from my dangling modifier.

[Eamonnca1]

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"Should of" and its related forms want to make me hack my own head off with a blunt, rusty knife.

+1.
It really gets to me that educated people come out with that so often in these parts.
Is it a Nordie thing ? 

No. It's a free stater thing.

[ONeill]

Should of bean Hardies' skool a gramer.