{"id":59,"date":"2013-08-05T09:02:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phenweb.wordpress.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:16:58","slug":"wandering-about-a-wonder-in-wonderful-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wandering-about-a-wonder-in-wonderful-grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"Wandering about a Wonder in Wonderful Grammar!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m wondering<\/i> or wandering<\/em> about which wonder<\/i> to wander<\/i> about.  If I carry on wondering<\/i> I might speculate or ponder as well, or I could amble, stroll or peruse around, into, or near a room rather than wandering<\/i> in. If I wonder too<\/i> much I\u2019ll be too<\/i> concerned to<\/i> be more than two<\/i> minutes late for the Wonder\u2019s opening time. It may take two<\/i> wonders before I too<\/i> wander into the correct vicinity to see the wander<\/i>ing tourists gaze in wonder<\/i> at the Wonder<\/i>s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get the right wandering<\/i> use whilst wondering<\/i> if I have used the correct to<\/i>, too<\/i> or two<\/i> and not edited properly, or just not noticed as the grammar checker fails to pick up which wonder<\/i> or wander<\/i> is the right one to<\/i> use too<\/i>.  Their<\/i>, the grammar programmers, collective failure in spotting that they\u2019re<\/i> making the usual mistakes over there<\/i>, has nothing to do with American English or English English, just the sheer inability of this author to wonder<\/i> whether he meant wander<\/i> or wonder<\/i>, especially when the sentence could mean either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaybe, he wonders\/wanders<\/i>, he should wonder\/wander<\/i> more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delete as applicable<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I bought some lessons they could be brought into my limited skill set along with all the other common errors of misused words, split infinitives, punctuation and formatting errors, or hopefully I could, right<\/i> away, just write<\/i> something compelling enough that no<\/i> one knows<\/i> which night<\/i> or knight<\/i> I might mean. And, I should not start sentences, let alone paragraphs, except in dialogue, with a conjunction like and<\/i>.  But, you often see them used and the grammar checkers don\u2019t correct that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve just done it twice and, \u201cDon\u2019t abbreviate,\u201d it\u2019s said, \u201cexcept in dialogue.\u201d  Should that full stop really be a period and should it be inside the speech marks or outside.  Should it be single quotes or double for speech?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe I should just write<\/i> and get a publisher and editor to make it right<\/i> for me, then I can win the Booker prize with almost no punctuation (Wolf Hall) or be short listed (Umbrella) or maybe I should let my readers just read<\/i> but not necessarily about reeds<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to wander off now and wonder where you are wandering about, wondering what I am on about?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m wondering or wandering about which wonder to wander about.  If I carry on wondering I might speculate or ponder as well, or I could amble, stroll or peruse around, into, or near a room rather than wandering in. If I wonder too much I\u2019ll be too concerned to be more than two minutes late […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[53,281,305,306,589,714,763,766,802,816,817,823],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-blogs","tag-arts","tag-full-stop","tag-grammar","tag-grammar-checker","tag-quotation-mark","tag-style-guide","tag-to","tag-too","tag-wander","tag-wolf-hall","tag-wonder","tag-writers-resources"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t