Only I like blondes. Oh, did someone else agree?
On 12 August 2014 08:43, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Most definitely, Jez. But perhaps we can add to the agenda the correct
> placing of adverbs such as 'only'.
>
> For instance, replace, "I only like blondes," with, "I like only blondes."
> Because the adverb applies to the object of the verb not to the verb
> itself.
>
> The Oxford comma? You mean that superfluous comma at the end of a list
> and before the 'and'? It should have been smothered at birth ;-)
>
> Chris
>
> On 12 Aug 14, at 08:03, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > So aside from adjective (adjectival?) order I'd like to see better usage
> of
> > the hyphen. Such as big-eyed, brown dog and brown-eyed, big dog.
> > We can move on to the Oxford comma later.
> > Jez
>
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