<p>For the author, composer, or painter, literature, music, or art, respectively, offer a way to share his or her thoughts, ideas, and world he or she lives in. </p>
<p>Are the commas placed correctly hear or should I take them out before or,</p>
<p>does this sentance make sense</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>how about this sentance</p>
<p>For these reasons, reading, and a general appreciation of the arts, has always been passions of mine. </p>
<p>comma after reading or no?</p>
<p>SISIS, it is not spelled 'grammer' you dolt. It is grammar! Grammar! Grammar!</p>
<p>SISIS, your sentence does not make sense. The verb to have is used incorrectly. </p>
<p>You wrote: For these reasons, reading, and a general appreciation of the arts, has always been passions of mine. </p>
<p>It should be have instead of has.</p>
<p>haha. SISIS is amusing, to say the least.</p>
<p>Nice thread title, do you mean grammar?</p>
<p>lol. you probably need spelling lessons too. grammar is right. :)</p>
<p>and no, your first sentence does not make sense. i'd reword it, crudely, to this:</p>
<p>I believe literature, music, and art are expressions of thoughts and ideas; through these mediums, the writer, composer and artist bare their souls and share with me the worlds they live in.</p>
<p>why is the "for" there anyway? add it in if it serves a purpose.</p>
<p>well i spelled grammar wrong on purpose u know like, me need grammar lesson, haha just ironic</p>
<p>but yea i asked because it made sense to me </p>
<p>and i was wandering if i set of an a general if it would be make the subject plural.. so im guessing i shouldnt set it off</p>
<p>can you say comma festival 2006??</p>
<p>this is why for was in there</p>
<p>the preceding sentance read</p>
<p>For the onlooker, literature and art offer a way to learn about and to see inside the mind of others. For the author, composer, and painter, literature, music, and art, offer a way to share his or her thoughts, ideas, and world he or she lives in. </p>
<p>dang idk</p>
<p>may anyone be so kind as to look at my whole paper and help me out. I can never get my thoughts across on paper</p>
<p>dont write he or she, just choose one (universal rule)</p>
<p>and dont end the sentence with "in" (also common rule)</p>
<p>there's nothing wrong with ending a sentence with "in"</p>
<p>this is the grammar that up with I will not put - Winston churchill</p>
<p>SISIS: Your quote makes no sense; I believe it's "up with which I will not put."</p>
<p>In your preceding sentence "mind" should be made plural to agree with "others."</p>
<p>In the next sentence, you shouldn't splice your subject and your verb with a comma; rather, it should be: "literature, music, and art offer." Otherwise, it would be equivalent to writing "He, eats."</p>
<p>Also in your sentence, you set up the characters, the "authors, composers, and painters," and then you write the methods, or ways in which they complete their goals: "literature, music, and art." Yet you use the singular "way," even though you mentioned multiple ways. Therefore you should use "ways."</p>
<p>kenneth: If SISIS were to use "one," it wouldn't agree with the subject. "A farmer picks one's apple" is ambiguous and isn't the same as "picks his apple." As the gender is ambiguous, you either have to choose "his" or the wordy "his or her." I like to say that "he, him, and his" are the neuter pronouns, but, alas, it's too un-PC.</p>
<p>Even then, this point isn't relevant for this sentence. SISIS, I believe you're thinking of the rule in which you must have the personal pronoun agree with its antecedent, as with "an artist must do his or her work" or "one must complete one's job," rather than the common foible "an artist must complete their work." In your case, however, you are using a plural antecedent, "author, composer, and painter" and, therefore, not only can you use "their," but you must use it. You must also, similarly, use "they" at the end of the sentence, rather than "he or she." This is all assuming that you want your pronouns to agree with "author, composer, and painter," which I'm assuming you do.</p>
<p>As for ending a sentence with a preposition, it is a commonly accepted practice in normal speech, and even in formal writing, assuming that the alternative is awkward or clumsy. In your case, SISIS, I would say that "the world in which they live" is more clean and flowing than the abrupt "the world they live in."</p>
<p>All of this said, if you're using this for an essay, realize that these are all cliched ideas and that, in the end you're not saying very much at all. Show, don't tell. If you truly believe what you're saying, then you should have reason, or evidence. What makes you believe that literature and art are mediums through which the casual viewer can pore into the minds of their creators? Or, for the author, composer, and artist, that their works are an outlet for expression? Is it obvious? If so, then it needn't be stated. Find something new, use examples, and leave it to the reader to decide.</p>
<p>by just choose "one," i dont mean replace he or she with "one"</p>
<p>i mean select either he or she!!!!!</p>
<p>english... its so tricky</p>
<p>I feel so good about myself now. Im going to end up at OSU</p>
<p>thanks tho you really helped me with all this </p>
<p>but yeah ...I feel so good about myself now</p>