The sections on using "that or which” and “who or whom” in the “What you don’t know...” section of the reading are useful to me. Those two things always confuse me and I stop and think about which one to use. I probably get it wrong most of the time. Now I know “who” is always the subject and “whom” is the object. I also learned to use “that” in restrictive relative clauses and “which” in nonrestrictive relative clauses. Meaning use “that” for information that is necessary to the sentence and “which” for information that is unnecessary but useful to the sentence.
Here are some movie titles with poor grammar:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit: The title should have a question mark (?) at the end, so it would be "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?".
Law Abiding Citizen: There should be a hyphen between “Law” and “Abiding,” so it would be "Law-Abiding Citizen".
Inglourious Bastards: Now this one is intentional, but “Inglourious” is spelled wrong, it should be "Inglorious Bastards".
Your comment on Twilight made me laugh! Funny that these movie titles each had an error.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed several movie titles that are questions that lack punctuation. That has always bothered me.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your 11th secret to writing well. You can tell if somebody is not interested in what they are writing about, whether it be a movie script, song, talk, etc., you can tell. I never thought about movie titles having to follow grammar rules, but now that you bring it up I'm sure I will notice more errors on those posters in the future.
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