Well, I knocked one off the list today!
For the last several years, it has been a bugger of a brain-bracker that I compulsively use commas in compound sentences, seperating the first compound sentence from the second compound sentence. However, I have become increasingly aware that other people do not use this comma. Almost no one. But I continued to use it, thinking to myself that I never would have ever begun using it if it was wrong, now would I??!!Apparently, I was right. I should be using it, and even better yet, when people don't use it, they are wrong! Oh, that made me so happy! Now, I'm not saying all my comma usage is right. I look at my commas in this little bloggery, and I have to say, I'm not sure half the time if they are right or not. But one thing I do know: I can use them in a compound sentence! Whoo-hoo!!!
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Commas are important, but since I don't write that many two-compound sentence sentences, I am more worried about using it at the end of the word its. I know it's a contraction for "it is" but then I have it in my brain that is has to be possessive, so "its' little nose was cold..." Sigh.
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