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Leslie Healey

Logical punctuation: Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks? - By Ben Y... - 13 views

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punctuation

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  • Leslie Healey on 17 May 11
     
    Ben YAGODA, UD prof, on logical punctuation in Slate magazine. Everything we talk about in class is undone the minute they hit the web!
Karen Chichester

Fun with punctuation Boing Boing - 22 views

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grammar punctuation english teaching learning writing ela

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  • Karen Chichester on 08 Feb 10
     
    Dangers of comma use or lack there of. Funny
Jenny Gilbert

Punctuation - Commas | Teachers TV - 22 views

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teachers commas punctuation Beadle

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 01 Feb 11
     
    Fascinating lesson - goes for about 40 minutes I think - Have yet to check out the attached handouts.
Todd Finley

The Norton FIELD GUIDE To WRITING - 0 views

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Comma Quizzes Norton

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  • Todd Finley on 11 Mar 11
     
    Can be used as pre-post assessment in punctuation
Melody Velasco

How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal - 20 views

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  • Melody Velasco on 27 Mar 10
     
    Interesting visual to explain the appropriate usage of the apostrophe.
Mark Smith

Philip Larkin, the Impossible Man - Magazine - The Atlantic - 3 views

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poetry orwell larkin

shared by Mark Smith on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
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  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • This is the world of wretched, tasteless food and watery drinks, dreary and crowded lodgings, outrageous plumbing, surly cynicism, long queues, shocking hygiene, and dismal, rain-lashed holidays, continually punctuated by rudeness and philistinism. In Orwell’s early fiction, all this is most graphically distilled in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, but it is an essential element of the texture of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and was quarried from the “down and out” journalism of which he produced so much
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