Correct Grammar

[Geoff Bannister]

Trying to pick up on one or two recent comments....

(1) I always switch the grammar option off on the spellchecker. I keep 
the spellcheck on because I am also a fast typist and tend to transpose 
letters etc. On a different newsgroup somw years ago, I diagnosed a new 
computer-created malady -  TFS (Tangle Finger Syndrome)(!)

(2) I eliminate commas preceding "and", "but" and "which". I was 
certainly taught the first two. The third procedure, like many of the 
White Knight's, is (probably) "my own invention."

(3) I was also taught that, if the "base" word ended in "s", you merely 
added a comma. If it didn't, you added "'s". I always think that 
adding "'s" after another - usually at the end of someone's name, e.g. 
Sirius's, James's - looks incredibly messy.