Words with Apostrophes !

[goeduck]

"Dysgraphia" = The inability to write coherently.

When I write, I throw a lot of words in each paragraph, some are just small words that tend to add nothing to the sentence or topic.

I was kidding which I assume your statement was !

I was joking about expanding your comment but I do have dyslexia. Not so much dysgraphia. My dyslexia is mild enough that I mostly overcome it and no one would know. In school, test questions that were made to be tricky unless you read them closely were the worst. The combination of the two made it extra hard to understand the question. My mind would switch up words making the question different.

 

[Scrambler82]

I thought so on the kidding part... my problem is keeping my train of thought clear.

I do write too much in attempting to get a idea across... I've done this all my life not just since getting older !

OK on the dyslexia, I'm not there, but testing in school always caused me grief when I had to write something that made sense.

I got more points off because incoherent sentences than for actually writing a wrong answer.

Funny how things change.

My biggest helper was the Personal Computer, it took the stigma out of writing for me, anything I wrote I could quickly change.

Now I have trouble stopping ! LoL !

 

[buck12]

Modern (English) educators are teaching the opposite...they are saying the comma is misunderstood and was being used way too often and where it was not needed...i.e., a mere pause does not call for a comma etc...
...personally I like using ellipses..

Not a lot from high school stuck with me but my tenth grade English teacher said if in doubt about a comma don稚 use one. I have followed her rule. It has been a long time since my high school days so this has been taught for quite a while.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

I too use the "Comma" more than I have to... WRONG, to me no, it gives a slight pause and separates a thought too.

I like the COMMA !

Don't forget the good old semi colon. There has been a school of thought that made a move to eliminate them. The definitely have their uses and misuses like commas in producing coherent thought and flow. I am not an English major either. It would not surprise me if English 101 is much different from what I learned in grammar school. Oxymoron intended.

Ron