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Old 01-29-2012, 03:22 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda View Post
I think it's important to note that authors break grammatical rules all the time. Fiction, in particular, is full of sentence fragments and regional dialects used to increase the book's emotional effect.
This is absolutely true, but I would respectfully submit that, before you can break the rules, it's important to know what the rules actually are, because unless you do, there will be circumstances in which you'll be unable to write in the appropriate style. For example, if you're writing in a formal context (as I do in my "day job") then it's very important to be able to use formal grammar correctly.

Once you can write "grammatically correct" English, then you have the knowledge to be able to relax the grammar for different writing styles, such as passages of dialogue.
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