{"id":17565,"date":"2019-09-17T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T03:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=17565"},"modified":"2019-09-18T08:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T12:26:10","slug":"grammar-time-how-to-use-a-semicolon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/grammar-time-how-to-use-a-semicolon\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammar Time: How to Use a Semicolon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I know some of our regular readers raise their eyebrows in amazement … and disgust… as I sometimes (all the time?) butcher the English language; I vow to get better, I tells ya! With that being said, I\u2019ve discovered a site that will make you laugh as you learn grammar, spelling and other things you should know \u2014 but think I don\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

But even I can learn from graphics – funny ones at that.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

The purpose of this article, disguised as a Cloudeight Site Pick, is twofold:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. It demonstrates that, even at my advanced age, teetering on the cusp of writing my own funeral dirge, I\u2019m still trying to learn. What my success will be, I don\u2019t know. You\u2019ll have to be the final judge of my grammar skills. Don’t be too harsh – I’m old and feeble!<\/span><\/p>\n

2. This site can help you with your grammar and spelling; if you have any sense of humor at all, you\u2019ll laugh while learning. If you don’t learn grammar, and you don’t laugh, don’t blame me. I think it’s a great site. And remember:\u00a0 there’s a lot more than grammar there. But since I have been deluged with sneers and howls and snickers about my grammar skills, I hereby choose to feature its grammar section. The Oatmeal has very helpful grammar tips served up via excellent cartoons and graphics. I wish my English teachers would have taught me grammar using cartoons. I might have been a grammar cop like you!<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, with all my yammering approaching unbearable, I hereby announce to you the site that can teach you and amuse you at the same time. It\u2019s called The Oatmeal.\u00a0 The Oatmeal is much more than just grammar — so feel free to browse the entire site; there’s some funny stuff there. But since I’ve been bashed for my grammar so much I’m getting a complexion about it —\u00a0 I get to choose the pages on Oatmeal I recommend to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

You are cordially are invited to hone your language skills and learn all about semicolons while exercising your funny bone by visiting The Oatmeal right now.<\/a><\/span> Just think: You might pick up some grammar tips you can use to further excoriate me. It’s OK. I love to be excoriated; I’m used to it. I excoriated an apple once.<\/span><\/p>\n

EB got her whip out today; she has a big hairy mustache.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know some of our regular readers raise their eyebrows in amazement … and disgust… as I sometimes (all the time?) butcher the English language; I vow to get better, I tells ya! With that being said, I\u2019ve discovered a site that will make you laugh as you learn grammar, spelling and other things you should know \u2014\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[276,496,3465,3466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17565"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17590,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565\/revisions\/17590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}