“When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split. —RAYMOND CHANDLER (IN A LETTER TO HIS EDITOR) It’s not a throwaway thing to tell you the truth. It’s not a throwaway thing, to tell you the truth. Punctuation matters. In fact, sometimes it’s the life or death of a sentence. Hyphens. Periods. Colons. Semicolons. Ellipses. Parentheses. They’re the containers of a sentence. They scaffold your words. Should a writer know her grammar? Yes, she should.” (Colum McCann , Letters to a Young Writer)
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