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Subject:Re: Grammar tipsheet, part 3 From:"Stephen C. Gillespie" <sgillespie -at- FEDEX -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:57:37 -0600
To add to Tom Campbell's remarks, he's absolutely right in his dialogue
on grammar...esp re the writer's context/construct; for example, in
journalism (-istic) style, it's OK to compose the "sentence fragment"
(incomplete grammatical sentence construction), in fact, often preferred
as a matter of STYLE. Of course, that sort of thing is taboo for tech
writing.
It's the split-infinitive and "never end a sentence with a preposition"
shibboleths that get me. In short, I know the "rules," but I'd rather be
CONSISTENT than "correct" any day!
Thanks, Tom, for your keen insights.
Steve G.
p.s. remember what Churchill said about "ending a sentence..."?
--"that's the sort of nonsense, up with which, I will NOT put!"
