I see you're still working on the commasHockey wrote: I just recently learned when to use a semi-colon.
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p.s-I'm part Irish I'm allowed to say that.
Actually, I am virtually unaware (that is to say, I've forgotten them all) of the English punctuaction rules and I go about them at a gut feeling - generally I follow the Bulgarian rules minus half the places, as English is generally less heavy on the commas. I also overuse parentheses, sometimes nesting them quite a few times ... IIRC Asimov writes like that sometimes