[NPInfo] Linda Marie

[Elsa DeHart]

Actually, the last is a change.  You would have been absolutely correct 
in 1950 and I think even now both ways may still be acceptable.

Jeffrey Hazzard wrote:
>   I post a lot and haven't gotten a Linda Marie grammar-gram yet!  
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>      Poor use of commas and semi colons drives me nuts, too.
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>      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.
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>      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.
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>       Their names were John, Mary, Vince, Pete, Cathy, Cindy, and Roy.
>       Their names were John, Mary, Vince, Pete, Cathy, Cindy and Roy.
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>        English grammar is harder than many languages because of the exceptions.
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>                 Jeff
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