Comma, colon, etc...

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Wein  #90495  Sat, 16 Apr 05 03:19 AM
Sometimes I find it difficult to choose the correct punctuation for some sentences like the following:

1. Could you tell me more about the following {,,}
a. project A; and
b. project B {/}

2. The sentence {,} Nobody should be liable {,nothing} {,} is misleading.

3. The preposition {,} of {,} should be used.

4. John F. Kennedy's quote {,nothing} "Don't ask what the Country can do for you, Ask what you can do for the country" was meant to be taken in spirit.

5. I am not going {,} but I am not coward {, } as I think you could handle it independently.

Thank for helping.
  
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lookfar  #91581  Tue, 19 Apr 05 08:21 PM
2. Quotation marks indicate the percepton of a spoken, or idiomatic phrase here

3. apostrophic quotes here indicate reference to the specific term 'of'

4. the comma further isolates the quotation here

5. the comma to seperate the clause that follows, and the dash to a brief extension of the statement. The first person speaks to the second person and qualifies his statement in
a catch-all "compound phrase", instead of further explaining himself.

-but don't quote me Wink [;)]
  
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