Grammar Girl Is Really Passionate About Grammar

[TheHappyKamper]

That affect and effect part was clear as mud.

[nicoleb]

LOL! I love how it TELLS us what an "article" is. Anyone stupid enough not to know what an article is probably doesn't have long to live before he chokes on his own tongue, anyway. Grammar Girl should have explained about lie VS lay. Retards... Uh, I mean, "people," are constantly confusing those two, mostly because schools don't teach jack-shit about grammar anymore, and thus people tend to have no idea what the difference between "transitive verb" and "intransitive verb" is.

[peterlloydsahler]

Damn right the period goes inside the quotation! Screw you all my dumb friends who have tried to argue with me! :D

[gsn69]

Yes, "inside" is a preposition. It makes more sense to have the quotation inside of the punctuation because of semantics. Need an example?

[crablord]

Uh oh. At 1:24 she ended her sentence with the word 'inside' which is a preposition. INCORRECT.

[dibbers]

You are INCORRECT. The way that 'inside' is used at 1:24 it is a noun, the location of WHERE the period should appear.

[crablord]

Lol I actually did know that, I just felt like trying really hard to point out some inaccuracy, and then I heard that. 'On' would have been the preposition she used there, and 'inside' was just the object.

[nurikosguardian]

She over explained the way too remember the word Effect, but she seems quite clued up. I never knew Americans put the period INSIDE a quotation. Seems a little odd since the sentence ends AFTER the quotation is finished.