{"id":263,"date":"2009-12-05T12:50:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T17:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2009-12-05T13:50:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T18:50:38","slug":"dfw-grammar-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/dfw-grammar-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"DFW Grammar Challenge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first-letter\">A<\/span>s <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/09\/12\/david-foster-wallace-grammar-challenge\">linked on Kottke<\/a>, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/htmlgiant.com\/?p=19945\">a short grammar challenge<\/a> from an old David Foster Wallace&#8217;s worksheet. Find the mistakes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He and I hardly see one another.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019d cringe at the naked vulnerability of his sentences left wandering around without periods and the ambiguity of his uncrossed \u201ct\u201ds.<\/li>\n<li>My brother called to find out if I was over the flu yet.<\/li>\n<li>I only spent six weeks in Napa.<\/li>\n<li>In my own mind, I can understand why its implications may be somewhat threatening.<\/li>\n<li>From whence had his new faith come?<\/li>\n<li>Please spare me your arguments of why all religions are unfounded and contrived.<\/li>\n<li>She didn\u2019t seem to ever stop talking.<\/li>\n<li>As the relationship progressed, I found her facial tic more and more aggravating.<\/li>\n<li>The Book of Mormon gives an account of Christ\u2019s ministry to the Nephites, which allegedly took place soon after Christ\u2019s resurrection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;d believe me if I said I scored five (1,4,5,6,9) correctly, wouldn&#8217;t you? <a href=\"http:\/\/htmlgiant.com\/?p=20022\">Answers here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As linked on Kottke, here&#8217;s a short grammar challenge from an old David Foster Wallace&#8217;s worksheet. Find the mistakes. He and I hardly see one another. I\u2019d cringe at the naked vulnerability of his sentences left wandering around without periods and the ambiguity of his uncrossed \u201ct\u201ds. My brother called to find out if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}