Monday, April 15, 2019

grammar quiz

I just saw this text on a banner-style meme:

Julian Assange is not a journalist, he's an anarchist.

Correct the comma splice. I can think of at least two ways.



4 comments:

  1. Semi-colon would be my first instinct. Or an em dash.

    Still, when a comrade breaks a limb out on the field of battle and all you have are commas, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

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  2. There should be a period after journalist or an exclamation point and then another after anarchist.

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  3. John,

    I guess that depends on how shouty you're feeling.

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