Date Night on Union Station (EarthCent Ambassador #1)

by E.M. Foner

Kelly grimaced at the length of the sentence, perhaps it needed a few more commas or another period?

A run-on sentence about punctuating long sentences. Meta.

“You were thirty five years old

hyphen

“Word gets around Kelly.

vocative comma

for whoever suffers sellers regret

seller's

none of the biologicals fostered by the Stryx had a clue as to their patron’s true technological limits.

patrons'

ask himself for the twentieth time why he told her the story.

had told

I assure you it’s an old wives tale.”

wives'

Sangrid spoke bruskly to chase away the waiter.

spelling

“We’re neither of us children, Kelly,” he remonstrated her,

remonstrated with

really don’t have anything else to say to you Sangrid.

vocative comma

the Natural’s derogatory term for the worlds aided by the Stryx.

Naturals'

“I’ll give you twelve to one the drug thing was the Dollnick’s play,”

Dollnicks'

Trading in the smaller, high-value cargoes, is the only way I could keep her going.”

no comma before main verb

You’d need to have one of those branded luxury botiques on the retail deck.”

spelling

as the only Stryx who shows something like human intuition, we had to believe him,”

dangling modifier

and withdrew from the conversation..

double period

Kelly shook her head at the girl’s nutty scheme

girls'