Forum: Community Center


Subject: Harrassment in The Virtual Tavern

cainbrogan opened this issue on Jan 19, 2003 ยท 92 posts


Hisminky posted Mon, 20 January 2003 at 12:48 PM

The**(extraneous and improper usage, try using "A" to preceed the subject)** stroller looks down to realize that the invention of cross walks**(incomplete thought or dangling participle), and wonders how(Incorrect usage of elipsis. See Strunk and White for acceptable usage)...the Old Folks home cheated the(poorly implemented context. Leave "the" out of the sentence)** old people now causing a mop**("mop" or "mob"?)** riot in the streets,(Comma splice. see Strunk and Whites again) were cheated out of thier daily prune juice, thus becoming**(Incorrect verb tense and usage)** hostile! The**(we covered this one in the first paragraph)** stroller, realizing the cop was much to little too late**(Comma splice, verb tense conflict), to escape mop(Again, "mop" or "mob"?)** justices**(incorrect plural usage), decides to publically sue the cop for negligence and lack of duty(redundancy), and in the same forum( mixed metaphor. First we were on the street, now we are in a forum.)** which said accusations took place. Scenerio 3 would be super, if we could all EVER...LIGHTS FLASH...GOD SPEAKS...ANGELS CRY...get to it! (I count only two, must be the new math, eh?) Its still an honest missunderstanding that was overexagerated and dissorderly dissmissed. I know what an anolgy is, but they lose relavance while existing place in reality!(Not sure with this one. Either something was left out or its just an incomplete thought)