Comma goes where?
Mar. 5th, 2006 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylMy previous ramblings on the subject of the Jameses, both Henry and Montague Rhodes, have reminded me of something I read in yesterday's Guardian about kids being marked down at GCSE English if their punctuation sucks.
Of particular interest to me, given my tendency to glue disparate sentences together with commas, was the comment, "A-grade students will also put a comma between two lengthy sentences when they should have used a full stop." My immediate response: tell that to Henry James. Or Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Or José Saramago. Maybe the Nobel Prize committee is less demanding, these days at least, than a bunch of GCSE examiners.
Of particular interest to me, given my tendency to glue disparate sentences together with commas, was the comment, "A-grade students will also put a comma between two lengthy sentences when they should have used a full stop." My immediate response: tell that to Henry James. Or Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Or José Saramago. Maybe the Nobel Prize committee is less demanding, these days at least, than a bunch of GCSE examiners.
