What punctuation rules do you break?

by Adrian Sroka
12th May 2014

I mainly use commas and full stops. I never use semi colons.

I omit commas during dialogue because it helps the conversation to flow..

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sometimes I'll start a sentence with but :(

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I quite often use a comma before a conjunction even though 'they' say you shouldn't. A lot of them go when I'm editing, though.

And I use colons A LOT. Don't know why: maybe because I don't really like fragments, which work well in tense bits of narrative.

Or maybe I'm just odd.

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I quite often use a comma before a conjunction even though 'they' say you shouldn't. A lot of them go when I'm editing, though.

And I use colons A LOT. Don't know why: maybe because I don't really like fragments, which work well in tense bits of narrative.

Or maybe I'm just odd.

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