JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for January 16, 2012
January 15, 2012
January 17, 2012
Transcript:
Marcy, your texts often contain grammatical errors. Of course they do, Mom. Text messages are snippets of conversation. Read em. Delete em. I prefer to compile em, correct em and return em.
Phatts almost 13 years ago
… poor Marcy, she has two cops in her family …and there’s no court of appeals for this one!
tegm almost 13 years ago
uh oh!
Ray_C almost 13 years ago
“They have no mercy within their souls, sentences are immediate, harsh and life-long! " That is a run-on sentence. It could probably be fixed most easily by using a semicolon instead of the first comma.
And I agree whole-heartedly with you. :-)
phydeaux44 almost 13 years ago
No one expects the Spelling Security.
Our three main weapons are . . .
McGehee almost 13 years ago
“…sentences are immediate, harsh and life-long!”
What? Run-on sentences? CALL THE GRAMMAR POLICE, INTERNAL AFFAIRS DIVISION!
kab2rb almost 13 years ago
I could use your help then. Taking Comp I and not knowing how structured the instructor for grammar will be. The instructor when Basic English was bad and I really needed help. I worked with two. My mom is of no use.
kab2rb almost 13 years ago
I’m surprise most GC strips not honoring MLK day.
Jdude96 almost 13 years ago
I usually do not like the strips with their mom correcting their grammar but this one is funny.
hippogriff almost 13 years ago
Ray C: Some criticize everything. Also get Rudolf Flesch’s Art of Readable Writing, and split the middle.
Goblinopolis almost 13 years ago
I strongly disagree. The semicolon conveys a pause in the logical flow of a sentence: a clarification or parenthetical thought, for example. A period indicates the end of a structure and the beginning of a new branch of the rhetorical progression. An independent clause is still a clause, not a full grammatical unit in itself.