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Why don't the newspapers follow punctuation and grammar rules?

I took eng 101 and i studied the grammar and the puntuaction but when i read the newspaper they dont follow these rules. For example i read in the neswpaper this : the blah blah. and after the period the other sentence started like this And , and what i studied is that and is a connector and the comma is always before not after this connector so im confused i mean is there a logical explanation for this or the newspapers write however they want. Tellme please thank you.

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Answer #1

Why the funadvice persons dont follow Puntuaction and grammar rules?

Answer #2

Newspapers rarely follow the rules of grammar, especially with their headlines… I guess there is a certain writing style or way of reporting the news that needs to be interesting enough for people to read. Just like commercials, any marketing copy you read - it’s full of grammatical errors, oxymorons, redundancies like “FREE BONUS GIFT.”

I guess they don’t follow rules because they don’t have to and because they need to get peoples’ attention.

Answer #3

LOL, because sometimes English isn’t their first language :)

Fito, it should say “why don’t the newspapers follow…….”

Answer #4

I know, sorry lol, I was just kidding =D

Answer #5

this is America and we can screw up anything