You know you've been reading a lot when.....

[JJB]

....you proofread your posts on CF to be sure your sentences are not ending with dangling participles.

 

[edie19]

....you proofread your posts on CF to be sure your sentences are not ending with dangling participles.

I don't know what your speaking of.





for me, it's the whole "never end a sentence in a preposition" rule

edie

 

[Paleoconservatarian]

I'm an odd one. My posts tend to be a combination of my more correct writing style and the more incorrect way I speak. It feels a bit more appropriate that way, for some reason. Probably confuses the lot of you.

 

[ClementofRome]

YOU KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN READING A LOT WHEN:

All the bookshelves in the office are full to overflowing and now the books are stacking up around you and you have to traverse a path to the desk! If I move to the right or to the left, I will knock a stack over and it will begin a dominoe effect!

 

[Paleoconservatarian]

YOU KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN READING A LOT WHEN:

All the bookshelves in the office are full to overflowing and now the books are stacking up around you and you have to traverse a path to the desk! If I move to the right or to the left, I will knock a stack over and it will begin a dominoe effect!

My roommate always teases me because of the stacks of books overcrowding my desk. Sometimes, I actually have to relocate stacks to the floor or my bed or something, so I have room to write.

 

[PapaLandShark]

...Suddenly the Dewey decimal system makes sense...

 

[Jon_]

Bah! Not ending a sentence in a preposition is such a non-rule anymore. It hasn't been in the Chicago Manual of Style for over 20 years now. The same thing with split-infinitives, in most cases.

Soli Deo Gloria

Jon

 

[Imblessed]

Isn't "ain't" in the dictionary now? THAT should tell you how the world's changed!!!

You can't tell your kids ain't isn't a word anymore!!! LOLOL

 

[edie19]

Bah! Not ending a sentence in a preposition is such a non-rule anymore. It hasn't been in the Chicago Manual of Style for over 20 years now. The same thing with split-infinitives, in most cases.

Soli Deo Gloria

Jon

Jon, the problem is I've been out of school for 30 years, so . . . . . . new rules don't apply, I never learned them.

edie

 

[McWilliams]

YOU KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN READING A LOT WHEN:

.........the nightstand beside the bed is so deep in books and there is no way to remember which book I was last into! Yea! I love it! Was it Flavel, Watson, Manton, Iain Murray, Boettner, Machen, Kuyper or which? Mercy, I must sort these out soon! But, not yet!


Happy Thanksgiving to all of you on Semper Reformanda! God bless!

 

[ClementofRome]

YOU KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN READING A LOT WHEN:

.........the nightstand beside the bed is so deep in books and there is no way to remember which book I was last into! Yea! I love it!

....uhhh, oh yea, the nightstand.... I have the perfect mixture of reading materials completely covering the nightstand so that I have to make room for the alarm clock each night:

theology/philosophy, of course (right now is Clark's "philosophy of education")
hunting and fishing magazines
Bass Pro Shop Master Catalog (it is approaching Christmas after all)
humor (right now..."The Darwin Awards")
novel (right now...Camus' "The Stranger" for the 90th time)
health (right now Andrew Weil's glucose/exercise advice....call me a dreamer)

now multiple that by around 4x and you have my nightstand.

 

[lmnop9876]

you should get the Macquarie Australian Dictionary. it's got just about every Australian slang word there is in it!

 

[edie19]

.........the nightstand beside the bed is so deep in books and there is no way to remember which book I was last into! Yea! I love it! Was it Flavel, Watson, Manton, Iain Murray, Boettner, Machen, Kuyper or which? Mercy, I must sort these out soon! But, not yet!

If a stranger saw my side of the bed they'd think that the books were holding up the bed. I have stacks of them at the very edge of the bed (so I don't trip of course) and they go right up to the box springs. Those are in addition to the books I have in bookcases, my purse, the windowseat, the coffee table. . . . . .

oh well

edie

 

[cygnusx1]

the only grammatical rule I remember is the forbidding of the double negative rule

 

[lmnop9876]

the only grammatical rule I remember is the forbidding of the double negative rule

there ain't no such thing as a double negative rule no more. lol

 

[frumanchu]

Make sure you don't mess with Mr. Anthropomorphism!

My old high school English teacher put it perfectly when she said: "Quoting is lazy. Express things in your own words."

 

[McWilliams]

If a stranger saw my side of the bed they'd think that the books were holding up the bed. I have stacks of them at the very edge of the bed (so I don't trip of course) and they go right up to the box springs. Those are in addition to the books I have in bookcases, my purse, the windowseat, the coffee table. . . . . .

oh well

edie

Oh yes Edie, I definitely understand that! Just think, when you're retired it will only get worse! Wonderful! Dont even need that alarm clock now!!

 

[Jon_]

Make sure you don't mess with Mr. Anthropomorphism!

My old high school English teacher put it perfectly when she said: "Quoting is lazy. Express things in your own words."

You've got to be kidding me. Your high school English teacher said this?

Soli Deo Gloria

Jon

 

[frumanchu]

Think about that one, Jon

 

[calmcoolandelected]

My husband gave me the most wonderful Christmas gift two years ago: he constructed built-in bookcases for the office! I promptly filled them. Now I am thinking of having him build another set, this time only half-way up the wall in the room over the garage (there are windows on that wall and I think it would look great!). I suppose I'll have to agree to his wish for a pool table for that room though...


CC&E -still has books piled in various places around the house. If you stack them just right, they become decorative items...