Word: comma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picayunishly meticulous, although I am a college professor in civil engineering and a highways man (not to be confused with highwayman), but shouldn't your TIME, Nov. 13 description of the farm life of Artist Dahlov ZorachIpcar that she "does not milk or drive a car," have a comma after "milk," or read "does not drive a car, or milk" ? Or has Ford done something bovine to his autos...
...dons of all persuasions, Monsignor Knox furnishes, between dialogues, imaginary documentation of his characters, some of it in the form of brilliant literary parodies. Best known of the authors whose style he imitates to a comma are James Boswell, Harold Nicolson...
...revolutionary theatre when, in the 18705, Wagner's Bayreuth Festspielhaus was built to mount it properly. It is no longer revolutionary, for the Metropolitan, like the Festspielhaus, is hidebound by the Ring tradition that not a hair of Wotan's beard must be altered, not a comma of Wagner's copious stage directions deleted...
...pronoun, the book explains further, is a "stand-in" for a noun; adjectives are "gossips" that "tell on" nouns and pronouns; a verb is the engine that makes the sentence go. Sentences have stop and go signals: a capital letter at the beginning is a green light; a dash, comma, semicolon or colon is a yellow light to make readers hesitate, a period, question mark or exclamation point is a red light. Suggested classroom game: a punctuation court for trying traffic violators: e.g.: "John Jones, you are charged with the serious offense of passing a period." Another game...
...India believe that cholera is a six-handed demon with no feet. Therefore it cannot leave its habitat in India's lowlands until some traveling hillsman comes along, upon whom it can lay its many clutches. Actually the cause of cholera is a microbe shaped like a comma, which enters the body only through the mouth, infests the digestive tract, irritates the bowels to such extent that they extract and eject quarts of fluid from the body. A victim of cholera may die-shriveled and cold from dehydration, uremia and toxemia-within four or five days of exposure...