Here's what I might write if I'm being informal:
I was walking down the street and chewing gum at the same time (see, I do challenge myself!) when I hit a signpost.
That's not right. But can you stick a sentence in the middle of another sentence in a grammatically correct way?
I was walking down the street and chewing gum at the same time (see, I do challenge myself!) when I hit a signpost.
That's not right. But can you stick a sentence in the middle of another sentence in a grammatically correct way?
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Re: asides and things
Sun, March 27, 2005 - 12:25 AMThat sort of interjected complete sentence would be acceptable, I would think, between dashes. Don't have a manual handy....
For example:
I was walking down the street and chewing gum at the same time — see, I do challenge myself! — when I hit a signpost.
I don't know what to say about the exclamation point. I'm personally flexible enough to accept it and like it. Eager for other, inevitably more learned, feedback. -
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Re: asides and things
Sun, March 27, 2005 - 9:16 PMSeemed fine to me as written, but like Lehho, I'm just calling it by eye, not looking it up. -
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Re: asides and things
Mon, March 28, 2005 - 4:11 PMThanks guys. Anybody else have any thoughts on this?
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