I am a self-proclaimed grammar Nazi.
I won't go around correcting internet posts, or stopping someone mid-sentence. That's stupid and immature.
What I will do is correct PUBLISHED LITERATURE, as if I'm generous enough to call 'Twilight' literature.
Yes, I have a copy of Twilight (from my depressed, 8th grade emo phase). I went through it, and gave up on page 18 after finding 28, yes TWENTY EIGHT, grammatical errors, none of which were for literary effect.
I literally found two in the second sentence of the preface. First page.
"I'd had reason enough in the last few months --- but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this."
First. You cannot say "I had had." Think about it.
Second. In the second portion: Even you had what?? You had just subsequently said that you 'had had reason enough.'
Not four lines after, this little gem appeared.
"Noble, even."
No subject, no verb, not even an exclamation.
Although Stephanie Meyer is to blame for her terrible lack of writing skills, what I want to know is: WHERE WERE THE EDITORS IN ALL OF THIS?
Her misuse of the semicolon bugged me to the extreme as well.
I won't go around correcting internet posts, or stopping someone mid-sentence. That's stupid and immature.
What I will do is correct PUBLISHED LITERATURE, as if I'm generous enough to call 'Twilight' literature.
Yes, I have a copy of Twilight (from my depressed, 8th grade emo phase). I went through it, and gave up on page 18 after finding 28, yes TWENTY EIGHT, grammatical errors, none of which were for literary effect.
I literally found two in the second sentence of the preface. First page.
"I'd had reason enough in the last few months --- but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this."
First. You cannot say "I had had." Think about it.
Second. In the second portion: Even you had what?? You had just subsequently said that you 'had had reason enough.'
Not four lines after, this little gem appeared.
"Noble, even."
No subject, no verb, not even an exclamation.
Although Stephanie Meyer is to blame for her terrible lack of writing skills, what I want to know is: WHERE WERE THE EDITORS IN ALL OF THIS?
Her misuse of the semicolon bugged me to the extreme as well.