ESL General English Grammar Questions

Re: HELP with Punctuation

Grammar Geek — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:54:50 GMT

Not until you give your own responsen first. I didn't ignore you - but you ignored me.

Re: HELP with Punctuation

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:38:50 GMT

can any one help me with this problem

Re: HELP with Punctuation

Grammar Geek — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:19:09 GMT

Anon, you must give your thoughts on the correct answer first. Then we will help.

Shouldn't Happy Cook be capitalized?

Re: HELP with Punctuation

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:09:16 GMT

help me please.

which is correct :

The happy cook oven a toy is twenty dollars more expensive than yesturday.

1. The happy cook oven, a toy,

2. The, happy cook oven, a toy

3. The happy cook oven a toy,

4. Correct as is .

Re: HELP with Punctuation

Ollie Veradi — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 21:29:15 GMT

There's free punctuation help on the on-line demo at www.grammar-monster.com

Re: HELP with Punctuation

Guest — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 04:22:19 GMT

:) Thank you so much for the help Miriam. You really cleared up a great deal for me.

Re: HELP with Punctuation

miriam — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:54:41 GMT

Hi, Guest.

Probably many people will accept your first sentence as it is, and perhaps it is not wrong. I'd make a slight change, though (which you don't necessarily have to take into account):
"They would send another Bound member to New London to continue the investigation she began and, if enough data was collected, that Bound member would become Unbound, meaning a clean up was in order."

I'm not sure I understand the meaning of your second sentence correctly, but I'll give it a try anyway:
"Four of the eight screens that made up his entertainment system were programmed to different up-to-the-minute news channels."

No commas needed there but, if "up-to-the-minute" used as an adjective modifying "channels", then the hyphens are needed.

You'll surely get more responses -different responses.

BTW, "Did I do it write"?" should be "Did I do it right?"

Miriam

HELP with Punctuation

Guest — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 05:02:00 GMT

I am more then a little confused when it comes to punctuation will someone please tell me how the below sentence should be done? Did I do it write? If not why????

They would send another Bound member to New London to continue the investigation she began, and if enough data was collected that Bound member would become Unbound, meaning a clean up was in order.

AND ALSO

Four of the eight screens that made up his entertainment system were programmed to different up to the minute news channels.