«COMMA»的英语 引用
单词
comma的知名引用和例句
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.
If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot.
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
与 «COMMA»相关的英语书籍
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Introduces readers to the proper use of common punctuation marks.
Mary Elizabeth Salzmann,
2010
"This collection of short stories by 15 contemporary writers shows a remarkable variety.
Michael Bracewell, Ra Page,
2002
3
Lapsing Into a
Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the: A ...
In an opinionated, humorous, and yes, curmudgeonly way, he shows how to apply the basic rules to unique, modern grammar issues. Walsh explains how to deal with perplexing situations such as trendy words, foreign terms, and web speak.
Bill Walsh, William F. Walsh,
2000
4
Comma Sutra: Position Yourself For Success With Good Grammar
A whimsical, offbeat approach to grammar for both novice and experienced writers provides helpful guidelines for sentence construction, the effective use of modifiers, punctuation, and other problem areas in such entertaining sections as ...
5
Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation
But this book is way more than a flight of whimsy.
Richard Lederer, John Shore,
2007
If you were a comma, you would separate words. You could put Walter, Roxie, and Harry on a team. You could go skating, sledding, or hiking. What else could you do if you were a comma?
7
A Girl Becomes a
Comma Like That: A Novel
Hauntingly observant and insightful, this poignant debut novel delves into the intricate bonds between mothers and daughters and offers an unflinching, darkly funny look at the relationships between love, sex, and death.
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Which Comes First, the
Comma Or the Pause? a Practical Guide ...
This book takes the mystery out of how to produce good writing by untangling core concepts and making them easy to learn. Here is a promise: Read this book from cover to cover, and you will bring your writing to a higher level.
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Brief introduction to the 'syntonic
comma', the 'Pythagorean ...
This essay is a brief introduction to Pythagorean tuning and explains the occurence of the Pythagorean comma, the syntonic comma and the schisma and a few methods that have been developed to eliminate the problem.
A hip, comedic novel, Doug Harris’s YOU comma Idiot is a dark, demented, deeply delightful excursion into youthful alienation and ennui.
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UTS banishes comma that made it an 'orphan'
It has a history dating back to ancient Greece but the humble comma has been ditched by the University of Technology, Sydney — which will ... «The Australian, 七月 15»
Jorge Luis Borges's infinite 'Library of Babel' has been digitized
The digital library has 29 possible characters (26 letters, space period, and comma) that are each randomly assigned to the 3,200 spaces on a ... «Quartz, 七月 15»
The age of the professional showoff
I'm embarrassed when I put a comma before “but” when it follows a negative predicate. As in: Having few Twitter followers isn't only ... «Washington Post, 七月 15»
18F style guide pushes clear, accessible writing for web
The guide covers basic style elements like capitalization, comma usage and acronyms, as well as advice on technical writing and how to avoid ... «Federal Times, 七月 15»
Joe's Weather Blog: Round 2 likely…some get it worse (TUE-7/7)
The developing storm will have a full fledged comma-head, much like a mature winter storm would have. Instead of being fed by a large ... «fox4kc.com, 七月 15»
Other Views: Repeal Nixon-era ban on oil exports
After all, the ban is a 1970s-era policy whose authors didn't devote so much as a comma of text or a syllable of testimony to climate change. «Dickinson Press, 七月 15»
Love, Blog Me Do. (You Know I Blog You.)
Promise me you'll use the serial comma. Promise me you'll stop haranguing me and my buddies about singular they, and instead you'll start ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, 七月 15»
A semicolon to a depression-free life!
It's a pause; not as short as a comma, neither long enough to qualify as a period. The Oxford dictionary defines it as "A break in a sentence that ... «Times of India, 七月 15»
Missing Comma Gets Woman Out Of A Parking Ticket
She said that there needed to be a comma between vehicle and camper. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. «NPR, 七月 15»
This Video Explains How to Properly Use Semicolons In Your Writing
Is it a comma? Or is it a period? It's neither, and while it might seem silly to think of semicolons as confusing punctuation, improper use of it is ... «Lifehacker, 七月 15»