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An omnishambles (something that has been managed or has turned out badly in every possible way) UK. First they mixed our rooms up, then the toilet flooded, and when we finally got to the beach it started raining. The entire holiday was an omnishambles! Unless you’re deliberately using a run-on sentence for dramatic or illustrative purposes, like I just did, don’t use them. In the first sentence, what the people used the map for is incidental. It’s as though the writer is saying, “The map is in the glove compartment. Oh, yeah—by the way, they used it to drive cross-country.” Commas also cheerfully separate lists of more than two items, such as a bunch of blogs , a parade of posts , a set of sentences and a party of paragraphs.

Yes, there are subcategories, exceptions, and sometimes even controversies about the parts of speech (you ain’t seen nothin’ until you’ve seen grammarians duking it out over the finer points of language), but for our purposes we’re going to keep this simple. Nouns I’m not saying you should make your writing so robotically regular that it becomes predictable and monotonous. Building a fabulous online presence starts with a top-quality domain name from DomainMarket.com. Here, you'll find only the very best .Comdomain names waiting to be developed into first-rate profitable brands. The second sentence, on the other hand, refers to the specific map they used. (There could be other maps, too.) “Where is the map they used to drive cross-country? It’s in the glove compartment.” Can you imagine reading text without any punctuation at all ? Well , in the earliest days of writing , that is what it was like . You can see how difficult it must have been , can’t you ?Even so, we’re still arguing about it. Grammar school might have led you to believe that we’ve successfully standardized things . . . but in a language as fluid as English, there is still a lot of room for interpretation. Let’s go over the main points of confusion, and you’ll see where the hard-and-fast rules are and where you get to decide how you want to punctuate things. Commas But expect to run into people who will argue that ad nauseam. Numbers: A Source of “Total” Confusion Clean those up, and you’ve gone a long way toward leaving a clear path through your writing. Parallel Construction

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Y’daft apeth (you idiot, you fool). MANCHESTER Don’t just stand there, y’daft apeth! Help me! Daft is a synonym of stupid and apeth comes from ha’p’orth, an abbreviation of halfpennyworth, i.e. an insignificant amount. If the value of one new lifelong customer and its references makes up for the domain cost, imagine how a great domain from DomainMarket.com will benefit when it helps you attract multitudes of unexpected new customers (whose value far surpasses the domain value, which keeps rising). Review the Microsoft study proving this phenomenon: "Domain Bias in Web Search" My teacher is sitting on my head (my teacher is putting pressure on me). INDIA. In super-multilingual India, it’s not unusual for people to translate idioms from one language to another. This one comes from Hindi. My teacher’s really sitting on my head. He’s given us three essays to write by Monday. You’ll be glad to know it’s finally considered okay for you to boldly go and split some infinitives, too.Carl’s nasty old landlord threatened to more than double the rent if Carl went to the rent board about the broken washing machine. Your competition for a great domain, and therefore your opportunity to arbitrage or capitalize, is even greater than your normal business competition, because it includes your normal competition, plus any other company or person in the world that wants to invest in domains for the future, plus anyone who competes for the same word, expression, or brand in any marketing or media. Both of these resources will help you become a faster and more efficient self-editor, freeing up more time for the creative work that is at the heart of what you blog about . . . and why you blog in the first place. Misplaced modifiers—often called “dangling modifiers” because of the way they just sort of hang there, not being clear about what they’re modifying—are some of the most amusing mistakes in all of Grammaria.