So, apparently I over use commas.
Today I received back the case study I wrote last semester.
The professor marked 16 spots in the paper where I had incorrectly used a comma - usually I put one in where one wasn't supposed to be, although once I missed a comma where one should have been. The professor wrote 5 comments about my comma use, in addition to the places where she just made a mark on the page.
I like commas. Is that so wrong? (Apparently, yes. Though, I have never before had a professor mark each particular spot in a paper where I incorrectly used commas.)
The professor marked 16 spots in the paper where I had incorrectly used a comma - usually I put one in where one wasn't supposed to be, although once I missed a comma where one should have been. The professor wrote 5 comments about my comma use, in addition to the places where she just made a mark on the page.
I like commas. Is that so wrong? (Apparently, yes. Though, I have never before had a professor mark each particular spot in a paper where I incorrectly used commas.)
posted by Not Quite Grown Up... at 6:25 PM
5 Comments:
I overuse commas and I like to use dashes to connect ideas without any end punctuation. It's creative, but not always correct. I always have to proofread for the word "that". I tend to use it incorrectly as well. I use Southernspeak as well (ain't, ya'll, fixing to, etc.) I would imagine your professor is getting you ready for the teaching world where parents and administrators will expect your grammar to be absolutely perfect. A colleague of mine actually had a parent return a classroom newsletter with corrections in "red" on it. So much for lack of parent involvement.
There's an interesting book called "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" by an admitted grammar nazi that may interest you.
I have awful handwriting, and one of my professors used to correct misspellings he perceived on words that I had, in fact, spelled correctly.
Perhaps I should have been a doctor. For them, bad handwriting is seen as a virtue.
nyc educator - I just looked at that book on Amazon, trying to figure out what the title meant. Funny!
elementaryhistoryteacher - I agree that grammar is important (I hate incorrectly used apostrophes). I just found it amusing that she seemed to focus so heavily on my comma use, while not making a lot of comments on the actual content of the case study. Sometimes this professor's priorities are a little off.
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It's ok to use commas, if you are using them right. For example, you miss commas where one should be and use a comma where it shouldn't be in this blog post. You don't put a comma before a prepositional phrase such as "in addition." Also, if you are going break up a sentence with a dash, you should be using an em dash and not a regular dash.
Today(comma), I received back the case study I wrote last semester.
The professor marked 16 spots in the paper where I had incorrectly used a comma(em dash) — usually I put one in where one wasn't supposed to be, although once I missed a comma where one should have been. The professor wrote 5 comments about my comma use(no comma) in addition to the places where she just made a mark on the page.
I like commas. Is that so wrong? (Apparently, yes. Though, I have never before had a professor mark each particular spot in a paper where I incorrectly used commas.)
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