and everything

[Mince]

Why do people say this?

On TV: "I left the doors and windows open and after a few days it was dry and everything."

So it was "funnier than Ben Elton" as well? It was "similar to a house owned by an idiot"?

[Roger Kettle]

You've got a point there, Mince. Not a great point but a point nonetheless.

[Mince]

Not a great point but a point nonetheless.

That's another thing! Sentence fragments also get on my nerves.

[peter]

Not a great point but a point nonetheless.

That's another thing! Sentence fragments also get on my nerves.

I thought

Then I didn't
                                        and then not."

[The Peepmaster]

Why do people say this?

On TV: "I left the doors and windows open and after a few days it was dry and everything."

So it was "funnier than Ben Elton" as well? It was "similar to a house owned by an idiot"?

You need a break, Mince.







Perhaps someone could start with your nose.

[Colin]

Or fingers.

[Diane CBPFC]

I have Word 2000. When I run spell check it often highlights sentences I have written and tells me they are fragmented. The program, with the assistance of the most smug little git of a paper clip character, asks me if I want to do anything about it. Well, sure I would, if I understood what I had done wrong but after re-reading the offending sentenses they usually sound just right to me.

Tell us more, oh wise Mince, about fragmented sentences.

[Mince]

The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line, wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"

Turn it off in TOOLS > OPTIONS > Spelling and Grammar

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Tell us more, oh wise Mince, about fragmented sentences.

Careful what you wish for, Diane. 

[Diane CBPFC]

Golly Mince ? you?ve made me feel both adequate and exonerated. Thank you.

[peter]

I have Word 2000. When I run spell check it often highlights sentences I have written and tells me they are fragmented. The program, with the assistance of the most smug little git of a paper clip character, asks me if I want to do anything about it. Well, sure I would, if I understood what I had done wrong but after re-reading the offending sentenses they usually sound just right to me.

Tell us more, oh wise Mince, about fragmented sentences.

Sentence.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Golly Mince ? you?ve made me feel both adequate and exonerated. Thank you.

Sentence.

And with one fell swoop, the father undoes all of the son's work.

[The Peepmaster]

The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line, wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"

Turn it off in TOOLS > OPTIONS > Spelling and Grammar

that junk that?

[Colin]

The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line, wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"

Turn it off in TOOLS > OPTIONS > Spelling and Grammar

that junk that?

Ahhh Peepmaster, I was going to say that. 

[Mince]

that junk that?

The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line, wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"

It makes sense to me.

The "that" in bold is a conjunction.

The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk (that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line), wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"

I am saying that the grammar checker is such a bad "piece" that junk wiggled and chanted. (The junk, by the way, would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line.)

So read more, Peepmaster. People will think you illiterate.