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Read my disclaimer:
1. This is solely the opinion of the author (Thats me!) and may contradict some/all of your beliefs.
2. The author has a lot of strong opinions and they are expressed openly in this blog.
3. The information the author has provided in this blog is not based on any statistics nor is a proven formula. So, do not go by the numbers or assume things.
4. This blog was created and is written by the author. It does not contain other people's ideas, but may have taken inspiration from other people and their ideas.
5. If you spend a lot of time reading this blog, and you are not satisfied at the end of it, you will not hold the author responsible for the lost time.
6. Some of the posts may contain topics which you are not comfortable with. If you do not like reading it the way it is, take it with a pinch of salt/sugar.
7. You may come across a good usage of my mother-tongue 'Tamil' and my national language 'Hindi'. They are definitely not swear words. If you do not understand the meaning of those words, look up a tamil-English dictionary / Hindi-English dictionary, whichever is relevant.
8. Some of the posts may be geared towards making the reader happy. It may contain stuff which you may consider silly. Do not estimate the calibre of the author based on 'such' posts.
9. If you come across spelling mistakes, grammatical errors in the blog, please let the author know so that she can correct them, and sue her Convent teacher!
(Rule 5 corrected according to Dr. Vikkki's inputs.)
Read my disclaimer:
1. This is solely the opinion of the author (Thats me!) and may contradict some/all of your beliefs.
2. The author has a lot of strong opinions and they are expressed openly in this blog.
3. The information the author has provided in this blog is not based on any statistics nor is a proven formula. So, do not go by the numbers or assume things.
4. This blog was created and is written by the author. It does not contain other people's ideas, but may have taken inspiration from other people and their ideas.
5. If you spend a lot of time reading this blog, and you are not satisfied at the end of it, you will not hold the author responsible for the lost time.
6. Some of the posts may contain topics which you are not comfortable with. If you do not like reading it the way it is, take it with a pinch of salt/sugar.
7. You may come across a good usage of my mother-tongue 'Tamil' and my national language 'Hindi'. They are definitely not swear words. If you do not understand the meaning of those words, look up a tamil-English dictionary / Hindi-English dictionary, whichever is relevant.
8. Some of the posts may be geared towards making the reader happy. It may contain stuff which you may consider silly. Do not estimate the calibre of the author based on 'such' posts.
9. If you come across spelling mistakes, grammatical errors in the blog, please let the author know so that she can correct them, and sue her Convent teacher!
(Rule 5 corrected according to Dr. Vikkki's inputs.)
posted by Third Eye at 10:41 AM
"If you come across spelling mistakes, grammatical errors in the blog, please let the author know so that she can correct them, and sue her Convent teacher!
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If you spend a lot of time reading this blog, and are not satisfied at the end of it, you will not hold the author responsible for the lost time.
A comma cannot preceed an "and".
:) Sue your convent teacher.
Convent teacher-a sue pannidalaam, but the little boys will miss her dearly! Paavom, mannithu vittudalaam.
hey, but i seriously think that a comma can precede an 'and' - Check it out in Word :P
No No.. you got me wrong. A comma can come before an and in only a few cases..
The comma connects two sentences that contain independent clauses. An independent clause is a statement that contains both a subject and a verb.
In your sentence u had stated the following:
"If you spend a lot of time reading this blog, and are not satisfied at the end of it"
Here, the statement before the comma is "If you spend a lot of time reading this blog", which has a subject ('you') and a verb ('reading'). The second statement "Are not satisfied at the end of it" does not contain a subject. So, in this case a comma cannot come before an 'and'. However, on the other hand had ur second statement been "you are not satisified at the end of it", then ur statement would have both a verb and a noun and you can have the comma there. So, in summary,
If you spend a lot of time reading this blog, and are not satisfied at the end of it
is'nt correct, while,
If you spend a lot of time reading this blog, and you are not satisfied at the end of it
is correct.
If u had noticed, I didnt point out the line
"If you come across spelling mistakes, grammatical errors in the blog, please let the author know so that she can correct them, and sue her Convent teacher!",
is because ur usage there was correct. Both the lines before and after the comma have individual subjects and verbs.
Check it out. :)
And btw, the above rule holds not only for the "and" but for any of the co-ordinating conjunctions,
"and, nor, but, so, for, or, and yet."
Aside: Dont point out that the usage of the comma followed by the and before the word "yet" in the line above is wrong, 'cause it isnt. This is called the serial comma and it is perfectly legal to use it. This is rule 2, btw.
;)
I am sure ur Convent teacher didnt teach u this.. So, go and sue her :p
@Vikkki: Ada Paavi, ada paaavi!! Nee aangilaththila ivvalavu arivu kozhundha iruppai-nnu theriyama poche! Cycle gap-la poondhu, error mela error-a kandipidikkareye... Hmmm... kandippa nee oru PhD-oda oru padi melai! (Btw, PhDnna Partial Head Damage!!) ;-)
Just kidding... Thanks for pointing out the errors. Without further delay, I will correct the sentence.
And... Miss Maria-va sue pannidalaam.. :)
Naan actual aa yen blog la idhelaam kandukuradhey illai.. Go through my blog and I can assure u that u would find loads of grammar errors.. It is just that I like to blog the way I talk.. Nee kooda kekalannaa naan idhai solli irukave maatein.. Nee kettei.. adhaan sonnein.. thappa eduthukaadhei :)
Cha cha... Thappa ellam edhuthukka maatein... Thanks for letting me know...:)
I've been readin your blog a lot these days.. Really interesting.. and aama, yaaru andha kutti... looks like your 'visiri'... she seems to be happy dat u dont smoke, she seems to dedicate posts to ur name... Hmmm..kazhakku!!! :)