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Is there a Firefox add-on that could help me learn proper use of commas?
I think commas are used differently in German and English but I'm always unsure. A little add-on making suggestions would be great.
#English is tough 
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“How To Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–), And Hyphens (-)”, Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use).
Punctuation is the writers only natural enemy 
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I don't know what you are complaining about.
Looking at the image: The single elephant and beach are in it, as requested; and the beach is definitely not within the elephant, but indeed is without.
Yes, I have indeed experienced Alexander's hymn "There is a green hill far away". Many, many times.
Did you try "sans"?
You could try to see what it makes of the first two lines of the hymn.
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Another gem by wordsmith Elle Cordova!
“I’m essential”
“You’re vestigial”
#Punctuation marks hanging out!
c: @ElleCordova on IG
Another gem by wordsmith Elle Cordova!
“I’m essential”
“You’re vestigial”
#Punctuation marks hanging out!
c: @ElleCordova on IG
Elle Cordova is brilliant 
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“Punctuation Marks Hanging Out” (https://youtube.com/shorts/ky0YOo7_Y0o).
Our writer long avoided exclamation points. Then, the pandemic hit and the lively punctuation became a signal flare in a cold, gray sea. Now he loves their zing! Their fizz! Their pop! #punctuation #grammar
Posted into Commentary @commentary-csmonitor
Grammarly: we miss you! Did you take a writing break?
me: it's not you, it's my new IT department won't allow #Grammarly and Microsoft Editor sucks donkey balls; I guess having proper #spelling, grammar and #punctuation in our product #documentation isn't a priority here at InniTrobe.
'Punctuation controls two things: logical separation and breath… Writers weigh each role differently.'
Matthew Zipf on Renata Adler's commas:
https://theamericanscholar.org/in-the-matter-of-the-commas
#books #reading #writing #fiction #punctuation #commas #bookstodon @bookstodon
And Michael Tomasello's book "Origins of Human Communication" has a sentence 261 words long that's more intelligible than many sentences one tenth its length.
Clarity hinges on structure and sense, and his line uses 11 semicolons – here, the right choice – to form a precisely executed parallelism.
There are exceptions. Halfway through Patrick deWitt's first novel "Ablutions" is a sentence 207 words long that made me want to stand and cheer.
Not to be all leave-it-to-the-pros, but you do need to have certain skills to attempt a sentence of such length and hope to keep readers firmly on track.
Sometimes four short sentences are better than a single 140-word behemoth built with creaky semicolons and sticky tape.
Punctuation: It matters!
Those quotation marks really don't "help."
![sign at a grocery story that says: ring bell for "meat service" [sic]](https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/110/454/334/885/782/original/e4beb7767fe26c72.jpg "sign at a grocery story that says: ring bell for \"meat service\" [sic]")
***The King's English by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler**
_“Read now or download for (free!)”_
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75439
#Read #Download #Nonfiction #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #English #Language #Grammar #Vocabulary #Syntax #Punctuation #Linguistics #ProjectGutenberg @linguistics @bookstodon
Style guides and standardisation have beaten out any creativity in punctuation. The near eradication of the multi-purposed ellipsis has been one of its greatest losses.
https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/in-praise-of-the-ellipsis/
While the Supreme Court’s politics have veered right, the court’s language has gotten surprisingly progressive. Justices now use contractions, casual language, and personal pronouns to make their opinions more accessible to the public. https://theconversation.com/us-supreme-court-is-unabashedly-liberal-in-its-writing-style-245503 #grammar #scotus #punctuation
That moment when you are proofreading and you see something funny: a period that looks odd. Yep, it was in italics, just a little tilted. 