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Good deeds, Giants, and grammar
Dec. 2nd, 2007 10:50 amThis morning when I went out to shovel the walks, I shoveled for my elderly neighbors and the women with lung cancer across the street. Let me tell you, that was some cardio.
Eli better remember how to throw touchdown passes today! I fell to 2nd place because of his interception festival last week.
He plays the Bears this week. Rexy and Eli all smooshed together. Yay.
I have a long-winded grammar question concerning paragraph breaks. Please helpsie.
The grammar guides I have suggest that paragraph breaks should happen when a new idea is presented or when a new person speaks (dialogue). So the first part of my question is: are there hard and fast rules about what makes for a "new idea", or is that subjective?
And going off of that, are paragraph breaks more of a stylistic choice than a grammar issue? Assuming reasonable readibility, of course.
Breaks affect tension, flow, and emphasis-- elements I struggle with-- and it seems like those things are stylistic choices. However, I'm in the school of thought that goes: Learn the rules, then decide whether or not break them rather than have no idea what you're doing and hope nobody notices.
Eli better remember how to throw touchdown passes today! I fell to 2nd place because of his interception festival last week.
He plays the Bears this week. Rexy and Eli all smooshed together. Yay.
I have a long-winded grammar question concerning paragraph breaks. Please helpsie.
The grammar guides I have suggest that paragraph breaks should happen when a new idea is presented or when a new person speaks (dialogue). So the first part of my question is: are there hard and fast rules about what makes for a "new idea", or is that subjective?
And going off of that, are paragraph breaks more of a stylistic choice than a grammar issue? Assuming reasonable readibility, of course.
Breaks affect tension, flow, and emphasis-- elements I struggle with-- and it seems like those things are stylistic choices. However, I'm in the school of thought that goes: Learn the rules, then decide whether or not break them rather than have no idea what you're doing and hope nobody notices.
