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Post by vrabinec on Jul 25, 2015 11:45:11 GMT -5
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Post by whdean on Jul 25, 2015 12:56:37 GMT -5
Bullshit is right.
1. Not a “complex sentence,” a comma splice of two independent clauses.
2. Okay, but overkill. And if you’re going to be pedantic, put the first comma after the first “and” or add another after it.
3. Bullshit. The text mirrors thought and speech.
4. WTF? No contractions in a first-person narrative? Again, WTF?
5. Oh no!
6. First you say fragments are “one way to emphasize an idea.” Then you say, “Sentence fragments are errors in writing”? Which is it?
7. Bullshit. It’s a zero article case, much like “I am king of the world!”
8. WTF? The expressions “in the moment” “in the heat of the moment” are English idioms.
9. The fix for “I am bewitched” is “he had bewitched me”? you’ve gotta be shitting me.
Now do all you fence sitters see why Grammarly is worse than useless?
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Post by Pru Freda on Jul 25, 2015 13:21:04 GMT -5
Agreed, WH. Oh, deary, deary me.
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Post by Miss Terri Novelle on Jul 25, 2015 13:30:17 GMT -5
What a bunch of crap.
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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 25, 2015 13:51:06 GMT -5
I'm agreeing with three of these. I do think spelling "uncoordinated" as "un-coordinated" is bizarre, but maybe that's the UK spelling?? To my eyes, it looks not just wrong but weirdly wrong. I'm not seeing the hyphenated spelling on dictionary sites. I hate comma splices in almost every instance, so I'm with the People writer on that one. And yeah, "strange unfamiliar surroundings" needs a comma. As is, it reads like an editing error, as though James meant to replace "strange" with "unfamiliar," or vice versa, but neglected to remove the replaced word. The rest is silly, and the confusion of the use of an adjective ("bewitched") with passive voice is particularly weird. My impression: everyone knows that Fifty Shades is badly written, so an editor told some intern to find some errors in the books and write a story about them (doesn't it read like something written by a kid in the midst of a journalism major?). But there actually aren't many errors to find. If the writing is, in fact, "bad," that's not the way in which it's bad.
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Post by whdean on Jul 25, 2015 13:52:01 GMT -5
One of the writers at The Economist has a funny piece on Grammarly. One of its usage recommendations was downright cringe-inducing. As the author put it: |
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Post by whdean on Jul 25, 2015 14:04:38 GMT -5
I hate comma splices in almost every instance, so I'm with the People writer on that one. Yeah, but the People writer is wrong. It's not a complex sentence; it's a compound sentence, and a punctuation error is not the only solution: Add in "and" and the sentence is correct. On top of that, we can't tell from the example what the antecedent of "this" is--something that might inform the fix. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 25, 2015 16:21:17 GMT -5
I hate comma splices in almost every instance, so I'm with the People writer on that one. Yeah, but the People writer is wrong. It's not a complex sentence; it's a compound sentence, and a punctuation error is not the only solution: Add in "and" and the sentence is correct. On top of that, we can't tell from the example what the antecedent of "this" is--something that might inform the fix. Mmm-hmm, sure. And whatever the situation, I'm guessing a semicolon wouldn't be my first choice. |
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