November 26, 2011

Pearls of expression – IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.

. . . John Ash's "Grammatical Institutes" (1763), for example, contains this marvelous explanation: "A Parenthesis (to be avoided as much as possible) is used to include some Sentence in another."
"Grappling Grammarians." By Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal, 11/23/11.

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