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Subject:Re: Speaking of grammar... From:Sullivan <dsulliva -at- MTU -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:56:41 -0500
Perhaps your request is tongue in cheek, but here are a couple useful web
pages, one for comma splices and one for dangling participles: http://www.niu.edu/acad/english/wac/commas.html http://www.niu.edu/acad/english/wac/verbclus.html
The stuff on dangling participles is about half way down the page on verb
clusters.
These pages are part of a series of on-line lessons meant to teach
first-year college students how to develop facility with sentence
structure. The lesson sequence is named "The Gutenberg Exchange," and you
can go to its front page at http://www.niu.edu/acad/english/wac/synlita.html
Dale Sullivan
<dsulliva -at- mtu -dot- edu>
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> From: Pat Gantt <pagantt -at- POSTOFFICE -dot- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET>
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Speaking of grammar...
> Date: Friday, September 19, 1997 9:07 AM
>
> I *never* have figured out what
> a comma splice is...
>
> Dang!
>
> So those of you who are not afflicted
> by comma diarrhea please enlighten me.
>
> --
> Best Regards, Pat
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