“When you’re used to the raw power of Iggy and the Stooges, everything else sounds kind of precious by comparison.”—Juno explaining why your mixtape is lame
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Hyphens
“Marcie Dahlgren-Frost. Dahlgren is my maiden name, Frost is my married name. I’m single again, but I never bothered to remove the Frost. And I get compliments on the hyphen.”—C’mon, who doesn’t love “Uncle Buck”?
Sentence Fragments
“‘Sentence fragment’ is also a sentence fragment.”—Lisa Simpson, with a pithy, incisive lesson on fragmentation
Run-on Sentences
“Always remember, your bones will not break in a bobsled. No, no, no. They shatter.”—words of wisdom, which everyone can use in life, from the Oscar-worthy “Cool Runnings”
Semicolons
“Your papers all suck, Margaret … shallow insights, stupid citations, and you persist in using semicolons where commas would suffice!”—a writing lesson mixed with motivational speaking in “Four Dead Batteries”