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Punctuation help

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  • 15-03-2010 3:24pm
    #1
    Outburst
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    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!


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    Permabear
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    #3
    Outburst
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    Thanks


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    deman
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    Donegalfella is correct; use semi-colons.

    But one question to the OP...

    Why capitalise ice-cream? :confused:


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    Outburst
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    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 : )


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

    Neither would I give one to semicolon.


    :P


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