Friday, October 31, 2008

Nick's blog

"Because, one slight grammatical error might leave you in the same ignorant class as the founders of the "Suppurate" hotels. (Nick Curosh)

First off, this is a sentence fragment. And, it is funny how I did not catch this mistake when going over my paper. I believe the reason I missed it is because it sort of flowed with my previous sentence. I was concerned with making a point through the use of humor that I forgot the rules of grammar. I think when I was writing these two sentences I wanted to combine the fragment with my previous sentence but decided it would be too long. So, instead I got one coherent sentence and one "semi-useful, somewhat sentence". When reading my paragraph as a whole, I missed the mistake because my original "fragment/sentence" linked the previous sentence very powerfully. But, analyzing it as an individual sentence, I discovered that it was a fragment and considerably weak writing.

"Snoots take "their" English very seriously, and one slight grammatical error might leave you in the same ignorant class as the founders of the "Suppurate" hotels.

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