News from The Onion

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Written by Barry

Quite often I catch myself inserting commas into places commas were never meant to be inserted. It’s a problem I’m all too aware of, and I’m making efforts to remedy it. Maybe because of this affliction of mine, this made me laugh:

Commas, Turning Up, Everywhere

WASHINGTON—In the midst of a crisis that may have reached a breaking, point Tuesday afternoon, linguists, and grammarians, everywhere say they…

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Posted on 28 April 2008

3 Responses to “News from The Onion”

the witch says:
May 11, 2008 at 9:44 am

did miss whiteford ever teach us any grammar? I don’t remember much and its a bit of a problem now I’m an english teacher. Was a good teacher all the same.
Barry says:
May 11, 2008 at 8:43 pm

You missed the apostrophe in “its”. When “it’s” is used as a short form of “it is” it gets an apostrophe. However, when “its” is used as the possessive (e.g. David’s shoes; The Witch’s Daughter) there is no apostrophe.

And no, she didn’t. She just taught us Sunset Song over and over and over again.
the witch says:
June 5, 2008 at 12:11 pm

I know you fanny. I’m a bastard english teacher. Just can’t always be arsed reaching for the shift button when typing.

Am I allowed to use bastard as an adjective?