[NPInfo] Linda Marie

[Becky Bolling]

Speaking of "grammar freaks" has anyone read Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynn
Truss? She is a British author and has written the funniest book about her
pet peeves about grammar. It is one of my all time favorite books. Read more
about this book below:

http://www.eatsshootsandleaves.com/esl.html

Back of the book says....

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun
and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The
panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his
shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an
explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats,
shoots and leaves." 

So punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter
of life and death.


Rebecca Bolling, MSN, NP-C
Alaska


-----Original Message-----
From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On Behalf
Of Joanne DaCunha
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 9:29 AM
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Subject: RE: [NPInfo] Linda Marie 

The comma at the end of the list and before the "and" is either used or
not used depending on the style manual the is followed.
So, neither is incorrect.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On
Behalf Of Jeffrey Hazzard
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 12:51 PM
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Subject: [NPInfo] Linda Marie 

  I post a lot and haven't gotten a Linda Marie grammar-gram yet!  
  
     <BOW>
   
     Poor use of commas and semi colons drives me nuts, too.
   
     Now, I find it hardest to remember these:  Who vs. whom, that vs.
which, and pleural possessives which (?that) end in "s."  The rest of it
I think I have down.
   
     Oh yea, I also put a comma at the end of a list before the "and" in
the chain, but was told recently that is inocorrect.  Below is an
example.
   
      Their names were John, Mary, Vince, Pete, Cathy, Cindy, and Roy.
      Their names were John, Mary, Vince, Pete, Cathy, Cindy and Roy.
   
       English grammar is harder than many languages because of the
exceptions.
   
                Jeff
   
   

       
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