Grammar Help Oh God Please

Discussion in 'General Advice' started by keltka, Feb 13, 2017.

  1. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    So I'm taking a class with this lady who's Kind Of Cool but also kind of Totally Nuts about grammar and I have NO FUCKING CLUE how to answer half of these and I CANNOT work the fuck out how to answer ANY of these please help me.

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  2. Erica

    Erica occasionally vaguely like a person

    bursts into thread tHIS IS MY TIME TO SHI---- just kidding i mostly have no idea
    I can't figure out the system for that at all (what does P-C4 mean?)

    (.... but but but wouldn't #4 be incorrect on the basis of "Vessels, Owens, and Bradford" isn't a clause on its own? Should be preceded by a colon, not a semi-colon,)
    (maybe,)
    (?)
     
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  3. valenstyne

    valenstyne Went out for cigarettes, never came back

    I think 4 should have a colon instead of a semi-colon…and 7 should probably be "If I were" instead of "If I was" because subjunctive?
     
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  4. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    (sorry, don't know if you wanted feedback on all of these or just the ones with 'none' listed currently)

    Sentence one... I don't like what they're doing with that 'has' and 'having', but I don't know how to apply it into proper words. Sentence number two doesn't have a proper subject. The sentence is all twisted up with commas, but if you untangle it, the sentence structure isn't there. Sentence three needs a comma or some kind of divider between the first and second half. Agreeing with the others that sentence four needs a colon. Sentence five doesn't have a verb. I... don't know what's up with sentence six. I don't like it, but I don't think it's technically incorrect. Maybe they want a pair of commas around 'such as these'? It changes the emphasis, but not really the structure :T Sentence seven probably needs the 'if I were'
     
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  5. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    Ah shit okay uh there's this Whole Big Document I'm supposed to look at and I can copy+paste stuff from it here if that might help with the weird system and problem shit and just
    sobs
     
  6. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    on literally all of them I always considered myself Decent with grammar but this system makes no fucking sense and she has over fifty codes for each different thing
    I don't know why she couldn't make it pick from certain options
     
  7. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    Is the code listed anywhere where you could copy and paste it online? I don't like formal grammar codes, but I do like sorting things.
     
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  8. valenstyne

    valenstyne Went out for cigarettes, never came back

    Oh, 6 probably needs some commas in "talented[,] athletic[,] skilled", plus that sounds redundant to me but I don't know if that's something you're supposed to consider.

    …over fifty codes. That…is ridiculous.
     
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  9. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    I've got it in a document, so I'm gonna upload it to google and link the thing here—heads up, it's. 17 pages long.
    I read it twice. I'm still floundering.
     
  10. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    eta: valenstyne's post about commas

    ^^^ yes, this is a good bet for what's wrong with number six. I don't think it's mandatory if you're playing by loose grammar rules, but if it's by the book, I think this is a good guess
     
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  11. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

  12. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    (I'm on my way home from work, but I'll look as soon as I'm back)
     
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  13. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    THANK YOU SO MUCH.
     
  14. Erica

    Erica occasionally vaguely like a person

    squints
    why is the background red

    (
    eta that this confusion is not directed at you, keltka, but at your professor)
     
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  15. Erica

    Erica occasionally vaguely like a person

    " I will indicate “P-S1” in the comments for your paper if you have misused a semicolon in an attempt to join two main clauses."
    I think that's what should go in #4, then?
     
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  16. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    My theory was that she Secretly Hates us

    OH THANK GOD I was trying to find that one but I couldn't find it and aAAAAAAAAA thank. thank you. god, why this, why the fuck.
     
  17. Erica

    Erica occasionally vaguely like a person

    "Another reason to use a comma is to separate adjectives that equally modify a noun, or coordinate adjectives." So that sounds like you do need commas for the NEXT TO LAST sentence I messed the order of the sentences up

    " I will indicate “P-C5” in the comments for your paper if you have made a comma error with coordinate adjectives." for that one

    eta wait youd already typed one in for that
    wait why is yours different
    hang on lemme look this up
     
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  18. Erica

    Erica occasionally vaguely like a person

    Okay okay so P-C4 is for general missing commas with items in a series, and P-C5 is specifically for the above adjective situation. So it should be P-C5.
     
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  19. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    ohhhh geez okay thank you
    I've, honestly always thought I had a decent grasp on grammar? But this is just. it's. I can't. really??? I can't parse this. It hurts my head. seriously thank you so much, all of you guys, erica, you fucking rock.
     
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  20. Erica

    Erica occasionally vaguely like a person

    (I'm sorry for being so unorganized I swear it's not on purpose x___x)

    Either way yes sentence 7 (the actual last one) does in fact need 'If I were', Spock & valenstyne were right
    Quoting the doc again:


    Can't figure out the code for it though, unless OMW is it? But that doesn't match the pattern :I
     
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