[NPInfo] Linda Marie

[Elsa DeHart]

I have the calendar, so every day I get a quote.  Great fun!

Becky Bolling wrote:
> 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
> To: NP Info
> 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
> To: npinfo npinfo
> 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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