Quick Fire Questions (A Place to Ask and Answer)

[Warren_Paul]

Originally Posted by Mouse

I'm not very musical so I didn't want to write something and then have someone go, no, that wouldn't work cos the female voice would blah blah... etc.

Paramore is your answer Mouse. Very successful group.

[Mouse]

Ah cool, cheers for that! I feel better now.

[springs]

We think maybe Human League was phil oakley and the two girls - very exact in this house.

Boney m had 3 women and one man who apparently mimed.

The Corrs, the 3 girls and Jim.

We are having quite a lot of fun in this house with this, it could be a long night, cheers Mouse....

[Mouse]

Heh heh! You're welcome!

[springs]

He felt sick, it was his childrens’ minds he’d sensed.
or
He felt sick; it was his childrens' minds he'd sensed.

I have, either very cleverly, or very stupidly involved the other half in my discussions around punctuation; he is generally very good at such things, but we can't agree... (and no prizes whose version is which....)

[Arthur_Connelly]

The second one.
Always remember this:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon

[Warren_Paul]

Originally Posted by springs1971

He felt sick, it was his childrens’ minds he’d sensed.
or
He felt sick; it was his childrens' minds he'd sensed.

I have, either very cleverly, or very stupidly involved the other half in my discussions around punctuation; he is generally very good at such things, but we can't agree... (and no prizes whose version is which....)

I'm with the semi-colon too.


Edit: is there a reason your font size is really small and changed? - is it some conspiracy...

[springs]

No, it just did that; I've fixed it now.

[Hex]

I agree the semi-colon version is best -- they're two separate sentences, I think, so the comma will burn a hole in space-time and spiders of DOOM will come tumbling through to eat all our words.

Before that happens, though -- I think the apostrophe on childrens should be before the s (because 'children' is already plural -- so: the minds of his children/ his children's minds)

[springs]

Gah, so I won the argument with the hubby, and got to keep a beloved semi colon, but still them darned possessive apostrophes...

My answer is easy, I know it very well. Hex is right. thankyou. (Men's room, not mens' room, gahhhh.)

[Warren_Paul]

Originally Posted by springs1971

Gah, so I won the argument with the hubby, and got to keep a beloved semi colon, but still them darned possessive apostrophes...

My answer is easy, I know it very well. Hex is right. thankyou. (Men's room, not mens' room, gahhhh.)

They still get me too, those darn possessives!


*wanders off muttering about there being too many rules to follow*

[Interference]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Damn. So you don't think three would work? Two guys and a girl?

Peter, Paul and Mary were a popular group in my yoot. They were mainly folk singers. Even before synthesisers, two people could be an effective combo, as fans of Simon and Garfunkel, Peter and Gordon, The Everly Brothers and others will attest.

Other famous trios who didn't depend on backing groups when they got famous might include: Cream; Emerson, Lake and Palmer; Nice and others. With synthesisers, you might just be impressed by duos like Siouxie and the Banshees, Soft Cell and The Pet Shop Boys. Even the Eurythmics was essentially a duo.

In the jazz genre, trios abound, of course.

I hope I've understood the question properly and answered it satisfactorily. Do I get points?

[Vertigo]

I suspect the comma version is technically incorrect. Without the semicolon would it not need a conjunctive such as 'because' (is that a conjunctive?).

He felt sick because it was his children's minds he'd sensed.

The semicolon lets you drop the 'because'.

[hopewrites]

Originally Posted by Mouse

I'm not very musical so I didn't want to write something and then have someone go, no, that wouldn't work cos the female voice would blah blah... etc.

it only wouldnt work if she was singing base. she can play base, but not sing it.

was that helpful? *cheesy grin*

music is like any other art, you have to say what it is before we can apply "rules" to it.

[Arthur_Connelly]

Concerning commas and semicolons, both of these are a little bit helpful.

Commas vs. Semicolons in Compound Sentences
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/04/

Sentence Punctuation Patterns
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/604/01/