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Originally Posted by Catlady
I don't know where you got these baffling ideas.
Grammar and style are different things.
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I went to one of the most expensive Christian schools in town. Everything I listed earlier was taught as grammar instead of style. People even got a week of grammar detention for failing a special test given every six weeks. Believe me, they were in-freaking-sane about making sure everyone knew the nitpicky details of grammar.
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I don't even know what to make of some of your other examples; who told you you shouldn't use contractions? And I have no idea what you mean by "Begin a quote as a fresh sentence instead of forcing a comma at the end of the previous one."
Frankly, I think your understanding of grammar needs a lot of work.
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Or maybe we were taught from different manuals of form, meant for different purposes? Everything we were taught was to "prepare" us for writing AP exam essays and papers for higher academia- and probably induce the odd nervous breakdown here and there. Either way, functional creative writing was never on the table.