Excessive Exclamation!!: Celebrate with your Graduate in Style!!

Monday, June 11, 2012

Celebrate with your Graduate in Style!!

Celebrate in style, and then ask your graduate how to use proper punctuation!!

2 comments:

ljanerobAugust 7, 2012 at 6:09 AM
oops, make that headline "your," not "you." The grammar/usage doesn't merit the same scorn.
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Tommy TigheAugust 7, 2012 at 12:25 PM
Noted. Thanks for catching me!!
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The Grammar Police

The exclamation point is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume (shouting), and often marks the end of a sentence. Example, "Watch Out!" A Sentence ending in an exclamation mark is an actual exclamation ("Wow!", "Boo!"), the imperative mood ("Stop!"), or intended to be astonishing or show astonishment ("They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!). Overly frequent use of the exclamation mark is generally considered poor writing, for it distracts the reader and reduces the mark's meaning. And, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "An exclamation point is like laughing at your own jokes."