A look at the mistakes and grammar of DJT tweets
Pic related. Bottom tweet comes first. Can’t flop them around—mobilefagging
Comprised with what I’ve seen other anons says and my own thoughts.
Blue: That apostrophe should be a comma.
Green: Not an error, but the construction makes “Now that the two…” and “there was no collusion” non-restrictive clauses. This should indicate that we don’t read the cause and effect of “Now that the” applying to “there was no collusion,” but rather to the “they say.” Some anons reading quickly or not paying close attention may not parse it correctly. Our two non-restrictive clauses are essentially conditionals for the saying. Anyhoo.
Red: Capitalize the “g”.
Yellow: This needs a colon, though you could use a semicolon and change the (likely) intended mean in an interesting way (that is: “I have an idea that I haven’t mentioned. Help me do this stuff with Trump’s docs and Cohen,” the implication being that this will help with the yet to be described plan. With this read, looking at finances and deals and following Cohen is not the plan. So, colon or semicolon does matter for a correct parse).
Grey: the ellipses should have three dots with a space between each like this . . . You add a fourth dot for a period if your ending the sentence (which all indications are that he is not).
Tweet 2
Purple: Closing quotation marks should go here.
Yellow: Comma splice. I think. I’m pretty sure that, because “no way” can stand on it’s own as a sentence (an exclamation? I’m really blanking on this one. Sorry), it counts as a comma splice. I think an em-dash would be best, but others might say semicolon. I don’t think the particular difference matters here, as I believe it would largely be a matter of preference or style manual.
Orange: This needs a comma because the non-comma version is reserved for an instance where there are two sides that have both committed crimes, and we have finished looking and one and now need to look at the other side where crimes were (also) committed. That is not the case here. Only one side committed crimes (yes, Repubs committed crimes, and that may be an angle in reading, but I’m reading the two sides as Trump and DS, the Dems being a public face of DS), so a comma is needed.