Comments on: The Definete Article http://www.grammarblog.co.uk/2009/04/the-definete-article/ A blog about spelling, punctuation and grammar Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:17:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Danielle Ingram http://www.grammarblog.co.uk/2009/04/the-definete-article/comment-page-1/#comment-1153 Danielle Ingram Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:16:41 +0000 http://www.grammarblog.co.uk/?p=534#comment-1153 Great post, I get annoyed by bad grammar too and I think that this post shows it at its worst! Great post, I get annoyed by bad grammar too and I think that this post shows it at its worst!

]]> By: Tom http://www.grammarblog.co.uk/2009/04/the-definete-article/comment-page-1/#comment-1133 Tom Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:25:53 +0000 http://www.grammarblog.co.uk/?p=534#comment-1133 You make a good point, Ant. But I made a deliberate stylistic decision. To me, (i.e., is punctuation overload. I don't think the comma is required, and the double full stops just feel fussy to me. So my personal rule is to add a single full stop when a common abbreviation has lowercase letters(ie. "eg" and "ie"). I make an exception with "etc", as it is usually only found at the end of clauses and is followed by a punctuation mark anyway. This is my own rule by the way; I encourage a debate on the subject. You make a good point, Ant. But I made a deliberate stylistic decision. To me, (i.e., is punctuation overload. I don’t think the comma is required, and the double full stops just feel fussy to me. So my personal rule is to add a single full stop when a common abbreviation has lowercase letters(ie. “eg” and “ie”). I make an exception with “etc”, as it is usually only found at the end of clauses and is followed by a punctuation mark anyway.

This is my own rule by the way; I encourage a debate on the subject.

]]> By: Ant http://www.grammarblog.co.uk/2009/04/the-definete-article/comment-page-1/#comment-1132 Ant Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:14:15 +0000 http://www.grammarblog.co.uk/?p=534#comment-1132 I know this is GrammarBlog not PunctuationBlog, but shouldn’t that be “(i.e., someone like me)”? I know this is GrammarBlog not PunctuationBlog, but shouldn’t that be “(i.e., someone like me)”?

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