{"id":3033,"date":"2006-03-27T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2017-12-21T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:52:09","slug":"grammar-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/grammar-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammar Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, readers, it&#8217;s time for today&#8217;s Grammar Stumper.  See if you can spot what&#8217;s wrong with this sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Honey, I can&#8217;t wait until you give birth to our child, because it will be your turn to clean the cat litter for nine months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, it has a hanging independent clause.  Unlike a hanging participle, which merits no sanction other than mockery and perhaps correction, the hanging independent clause is a complete sentence appended to another with a conjunction and that is sometimes punishable by hanging.<\/p>\n<p>Gentle reader, to best avoid the hanging dependent clause and the hanging that might ensue, one should simply discard the dangerous part of the compound sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Honey, I can&#8217;t wait until you give birth to our child.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See how that simple truncation turns you from grammar goofball to grammar, and sometimes familial, hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, readers, it&#8217;s time for today&#8217;s Grammar Stumper. See if you can spot what&#8217;s wrong with this sentence: Honey, I can&#8217;t wait until you give birth to our child, because it will be your turn to clean the cat litter for nine months. That&#8217;s right, it has a hanging independent clause. Unlike a hanging participle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18834,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/18834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}