Type of Grammar for Various Situations

Or, how to express things to insure proper understanding of the message

  • Sympathy card: Avoid cisgender pronouns unless their mother’s preference is known.
  • Note of encouragement from regional manager: When sincere, wording should be short and terse, accompanied by donuts. If insincere, a rhyming cadence with copious exclamation marks is preferred.
  • Missing bread: Write accusatory statement in red ink, circle five times, and use twelve exclamation marks.
  • Where to store supplies: 1-3 exclamation marks at the end of each sentence (the same for each)
  • Signing up for cleaning shift: Any arrival or departure times after midnight or before 4 am should be double underlined.
  • Inventory procedures: Question marks strongly discouraged.
  • Notes about back stock: Should be formatted like a bulleted list, but without bullets.
  • Public notices about continuing worldwide plague, requesting minimal compliance to commonly accepted safety standards: Convey a sense of normalcy by using periods. Notices can be made more calming with the addition of commas.
  • Dayforce message from person you have never heard of, asking everyone to do the important things they have already been doing for a while, reiterating that the important things are important: No type of grammar makes this acceptable.
  • Name on locker, drawer, cabinet, backpack: Stars and curlicues acceptable.
  • Labels for different parts of refrigerator: Bold word “PLEASE” underlined five times, circled, followed by 16 exclamation marks and a smiley face.
  • Demo signs: All that’s important is that you write is using neon colors.
  • Lettuce Recall sign: Generally speaking, in this situation any additional punctuation will cause fear. Run on sentences okay.
  • Presidential thought bubble drawn on bills: Anything goes
  • Mate reviews: Nobody reads these anyway so write whatever you want.
  • Shopping list: Spice it up by using the past participle tense.
  • Qty limit purchases signs: The people who need to see these will ignore them, so they are unnecessary.

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