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Punctuation help

  • 15-03-2010 02:24PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭


    Hello,

    Looking for a bit of help with editing a piece of writing.

    Let's just take this as a terrible example:

    I want to eat Ice-cream, I want to hold it, I want to cherish it.

    1) If the object (Ice-cream) is replaced by a pronoun (it), are the subsequent sections full sentences (I'm guessing they are)?

    2) If they are, it would seem that this is a case of comma splicing. Since another function of the comma is listing, and the above sentences are listing what I want to do to Ice-cream, is this acceptable punctuation? (I suspect it isn't)

    Thanks!


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,019 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭Outburst


    Thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭deman


    Donegalfella is correct; use semi-colons.

    But one question to the OP...

    Why capitalise ice-cream? :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭Outburst


    I think it's important enough to deserve a capital letter, don't you think so? Or maybe it was because I was holding down shift to get the bracket : )


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    I wouldn't give it the dash though, except maybe of raspberry.

    Neither would I give one to semicolon.


    :P


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