Grammar question...
Oct. 8th, 2008 06:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
awanderingbardI've Googled this, but haven't be able to find an answer or didn't have the right phrase to find it.
When you're writing time in a story, what sort of formatting is grammatically correct? For example, I'm having a character give the timeline of a crime. He says 2 AM to begin with, which is fine, but after that he's going to drop the 'AM', because you don't tend to keep saying it when you're talking. So how do I write time after that? Would it be -
"I got the call around 3." (which looks weird)
or
"I got the call around three." (Which looks more like a number than a time.)
If it were in description, I'd keep the AM, but in dialogue it just sounds repetitive.
I've posted this to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
grammargeeks too, but I don't know how active it is. Anyone have a better grammar question community?
Completely off-topic:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
donutsweeper found me a Canadian spellchecker for my Firefox and it's awesome! When I turned it on, Googled suddenly became a word (the US one had it underlined) and it didn't try to correct 'dialogue' (the US always wants it to be 'dialog'). Yay!
When you're writing time in a story, what sort of formatting is grammatically correct? For example, I'm having a character give the timeline of a crime. He says 2 AM to begin with, which is fine, but after that he's going to drop the 'AM', because you don't tend to keep saying it when you're talking. So how do I write time after that? Would it be -
"I got the call around 3." (which looks weird)
or
"I got the call around three." (Which looks more like a number than a time.)
If it were in description, I'd keep the AM, but in dialogue it just sounds repetitive.
I've posted this to
grammargeeks too, but I don't know how active it is. Anyone have a better grammar question community?Completely off-topic:
donutsweeper found me a Canadian spellchecker for my Firefox and it's awesome! When I turned it on, Googled suddenly became a word (the US one had it underlined) and it didn't try to correct 'dialogue' (the US always wants it to be 'dialog'). Yay!
