We repeat: simple elements of a sentence (in this case the object and object complement) should not be separated by internal punctuation. Do you hear us, Subaru?
Submitted by SAGB member Olivia Curti
Submitted by SAGB member Olivia Curti
This decision is (apparently) a person who is super into not being cool. Hm.  Romney's writers could use a little lesson in semi-colons. Or maybe we would be allowed to hunt, shoot, and protect our families, homes, and property if he were elected? Seems a little incongruous to me!  The second comma (model, focuses) makes no sense at all. It sets "the French parenting model" off as a parenthetical clause, making the subject of the sentence "In contrast" when, clearly, it is not. 
There are three of them missing: parent, so that // habitat, then // identical, there.  This advertisement falls into the same category of errors as Subaru and Las Vegas: it separates subject from verb. It, bugs me. Submitted by Geoff Johnson  I'm starting to think The Society needs an entire page dedicated to the boobs at The NYT. Jon Caramanica (Commamaniac) is crazy for commas. The caption isn't the only problem: Caramanica boobifies throughout his entire article, popping commas in unnecessarily and inappropriately and leaving them out when they are necessary and appropriate. Submitted by SAGB member Dan Dunning |  Submit a booberyArchivesDecember 2012 CategoriesAll |
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