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Hello. My name is Camlin, and I am a grammar geek. I don't expect most of the internet to sympathize, but I love grammar. The ways in which we choose to structure our sentences is fascinating, and super important. I mean, it usually isn't life or death, but it serves a valid purpose: clarity. Good grammar is the difference between immediately understanding a sentence you've only read once, and having to read the same sentence several times before deciphering its meaning. Unfortunately, even I often find myself at a loss to determine the most grammatically correct form of a sentence. The rules are too inconsistent, or the sentence is so unusual that I haven't memorized the correct way to structure it. At that point, I either have to rewrite my sentence to avoid the issue, or I have to look up the rules. Take today, for instance. I had...something of an existential crisis regarding my overuse of hyphens.
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