To probe deeply into troubled consciousness, he uses modernist techniques, eliminating linear narrative, punctuation, standard paragraphs, anything that might stand between a reader and the characters' thought processes.
Frey's publisher described him thus: "In writing his beautiful memoir, James Frey does away with a lot of things: punctuation, standard grammar rules, 12-step programmes, belief in a higher power and, eventually, his addiction to alcohol and drugs". Except, as revealed by the investigative website the Smoking Gun, it didn't quite happen like that.
To achieve this required the formalization of grammatical structures, the conventionalization of meanings of terms, and the invention of standard punctuation.
All of the upper- and lower-case letters in the English alphabet are represented in basic Ascii, as are standard punctuation marks like periods and exclamation marks.
Disregarding standard punctuation, the novel's language acquires a kind of trudging exuberance — part exhaustion, part frenzy — that amply conveys the boy's mood.
AFM images of 100 distinct shapes, including the 26 capital letters of the Latin alphabet, 10 Arabic numerals, 23 punctuation marks, other standard keyboard symbols, 10 emoticons, 9 astrological symbols, 6 Chinese characters, and various miscellaneous symbols [26].
A: I'm sorry I can't account for your state of mind, but standard punctuation calls for a comma before a conjunction that joins two independent clauses unless the clauses are very short.
Try to ensure that your email does not include grammar or spelling mistakes and uses standard punctuation (no all caps, for example).
As Crystal writes in "Making a Point," "Standard English punctuation is still alive and well; in the online world, nonstandard punctuation is alive and well.… Quite a few online sites — most of the Web, and many bloggers and social networkers — remain faithful to traditional punctuation norms".
Selecting words and phrases that appealed to him, he leached them of personality, by using stencils, and of quick readability, by eliminating standard spacing, punctuation, and, in one case, vowels ("TRBL").
Do not concern yourself with logic, style, punctuation, or any other standard of "correctness". If, in the middle of a sentence, another idea comes to you — go with it.
