Category Archives: Pedants’ Club
Keeping your adverbials in their proper place
‘Stopping to rethread the needle twice before she got to the end, she got up and stood at the ironing board to press the skirt with a warm iron ready for collection.’
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Gert is grouchy
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No names, no pack drill as they used to say in the army, but Gert was shocked to her bootstraps to read sentences like this in a book that has received some praise:
Titivullus, a hell of a spellchecker
Boredom – so fun? Even funner!
Nietzsche Boredom is the windless calm of the soul
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Have the proof-reader shot
Some nice Twainisms in David Crystal’s Guardian article about his new book Making a Point: the pernickety story of English punctuation.
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That pesky comma
This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God
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