I
pray thee, tell me, then, that he is well.
-Hermia
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act III, scene ii, line 77
I’d like to dwell on the fact that this one line,
ten-word sentence has four pieces of punctuation in it. And Bravo to that! The
comma is a very undervalued little dot with a tail. It can do so much to add to
the clarity of a sentence. And after all, what good is a sentence if the
meaning of it is not clear? Why bother writing it at all? In many ways, an idea
would be better left unwritten as opposed to being written in such a way as to
promote ambiguity.
Now, keeping with our theme of song week, here’s today’s
song about the comma, comma, comma, comma….
No comments:
Post a Comment