brainofck

LOL! The problem is that I like to write fiction in tight third, which means even the narrative should be in the "voice" of the POV character. And most people don't bother about snugging participles up in the beginning of a phrase where they belong, even if they know the difference between "who" and "whom." Using participles correctly makes a sentence sound stiff and stuffy, correct or not, and if that's not the tone you want then it doesn't work. Getting across what you're trying to communicate, connotation as well as denotation, trumps grammatical correctness in my book -- that's the whole point of learning the rules and then learning when to break them.

Angie, ducking thumps