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BAD GUYS
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FRAGMENTO Fragmento is Grammar Man's most diabolical adversary. Fragmento speaks only in fragments, which look like sentences but are missing one or more of the three sentence essentials: subject, predicate, and complete thought. When Fragmento speaks only in fragments, he doesn't communicate complete thoughts. Fragmento causes everyone who hears him to become frustrated and cry because they don't get enough information to fully understand what he says. Fragmento wants people to not use complete sentences. He wants everyone to communicate incompletely and to cause others who hear those fragments to not know enough information and become so frustrated that they cry.
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PROFESSOR PERFECT Professor Perfect is obsessed with the idea that anyone not using perfect grammar should face the consequences of poor grammar usage. Professor Perfect used to be an English professor at Grammar City University , but he was fired from his position because of his extreme methods of teaching grammar. Although he has a superior knowledge of grammar and how it works, he would rather punish those who do not use grammar properly instead of taking the time to teach them how to use it correctly. Professor Perfect never uses incorrect grammar, but he does take grammatical errors and turns them into grammar disasters with his various “catastrophe” ray guns. |
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THE RUN-ON The Run-On is a figure cloaked in mystery. His true identity isn't known, and no one knows what he looks like. The Run-On has remained so mysterious because his attack on good grammar is so subtle that most people don't even realize they're using a run-on until it's too late. A run-on is two sentences put together with absolutely no punctuation between them. The Run-On relies on people to do nothing to clearly separate ideas. His insidious plan is to get people to fuse all of their ideas together so that there is no break between them, no separation of thought, and no rest for grammar users. Run-ons make people's sentences run on and on and on. |
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THE SPLICE The Splice is a frustrated engineer who always wanted to build two-part, or compound, structures. He never was successful in creating these two-part structures, and every one of his designed buildings collapsed. Now, bitter with resentment, he attempts to sabotage anyone who tries to build two-part structures by sneaking in a connector that is too weak to hold the two-part structure together. The Splice tries to deceive people into thinking that they can use commas alone to join two sentences. He doesn't want people to know that commas are too weak by themselves to join two sentences.
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