http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/PunctuationCheckedOver/hbbgl/post.htm#685642Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:30:31 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:685642Grammar Geek0http://www.englishforums.com/English/PunctuationCheckedOver/hbbgl/post.htm#685642http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-685642.xmlYou don&#39;t have to be rude. Dashes are never required. They are one option, never the only option. That is, they are never require to be &quot;correct.&quot; I disagree with the comma after &quot;was.&quot; It wasn&#39;t Roy Rogers said, &quot;blah blah,&quot; which would require the comma. However, I do agree with the semi-colons. With the embedded commas in the items in a list, the semi-colon is used to seperate those items.http://www.englishforums.com/English/PunctuationCheckedOver/hbbgl/post.htm#685639Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:10:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:685639Anonymous1http://www.englishforums.com/English/PunctuationCheckedOver/hbbgl/post.htm#685639http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-685639.xmlSorry, Clive. I think you missed the boat on almost all corrections. Do don&#39;t &quot;pick&quot; what you want, or &quot;if you like dashes,&quot; you use what is correct. J is correct with semicolons because there are commas within items. There should be commafter after &quot;was&quot; in k. o is correct as written. Dashes are correct in p (and they remembered NOT to separate from the words before and after them with spaces).http://www.englishforums.com/English/PunctuationCheckedOver/hbbgl/post.htm#589978Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:53:52 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:589978Clive2http://www.englishforums.com/English/PunctuationCheckedOver/hbbgl/post.htm#589978http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-589978.xmlHi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I&#39;m taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I&#39;d like to be sure. (This lesson focuses mainly on the period, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, semicolon, colon, dash, apostrophe, hyphen, quotation marks, italics/underlining, parantheses, brackets, slashes, capital letters, numbers) a) Her favourite writers, Joyce Ca r ol Oates and James Dickey, are both contemporary. j) The lawn, a little ragged, needs to be cut; the hedge, shrubs, and ivy need to be trimmed; the flowers need to be watered; and not least of all, the gardener needs to be ...http://www.englishforums.com/English/PunctuationCheckedOver/hbbgl/post.htmMon, 26 Jan 2009 06:53:52 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:589962emchapps3http://www.englishforums.com/English/PunctuationCheckedOver/hbbgl/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-589962.xmlHi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I&#39;m taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I&#39;d like to be sure. (This lesson focuses mainly on the period, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, semicolon, colon, dash, apostrophe, hyphen, quotation marks, italics/underlining, parantheses, brackets, slashes, capital letters, numbers) a) Her favourite writers, Joyce Caol Oates and James Dickey, are both contemporary. b) Your faults are an uncontrollable temper, inexperience, and indifference to your work. (should there be a colon after the word are?) c) Since we had driven the car 87,000 kilometres,...