By Numbers, Commas

Problems highlighted for you in blue. Comments in yellow. I am writing to apply for *** PhD. Program on Marketing field of concentration (this makes little sense to me - are you sure it is correct?) next September. I got a master degree at *** Business School from University *** , one of the...

You have problems with determiners, plurals, verb tenses, prepositions and general grammatical structure. I've corrected the first paragraph for you and highlighed problems in the second. In the second paragraph you have started inserting a space before commas, which is incorrect. The government...

Tanit wrote: Hi, Goodman, Thank you for your comments and constructive advice, I'll try to rephrase some sentences, so as to make the chapter more readable. If you google "Waste Local Plan" and "waste production" (as Marius often writes, with the inverted commas! ), you'll find 285,000...

Anonymous wrote: Hi there, Quite a number of writers, even native speakers, will put a comma before the words such as 'although', 'though' and 'because'. But I was taught not to put a comma before these words. Is it true? Simon I agree with you. It is often inserted unnecessarily.

Hi there, Quite a number of writers, even native speakers, will put a comma before the words such as 'although', 'though' and 'because'. But I was taught not to put a comma before these words. Is it true? Simon

Grammar Ninja is an educational game where the player identifies parts of speech in rapid succession. Correct answers help you advance; wrong ones blow up in your face. The game is modeled after Brain Age's CalculationsX20 exercise. Grammar Ninja is my final project for my Independent Study in...

Hello,Quick question: I was writing a letter to my insurance company and I wanted to type all information in one sentence. However, I am having some trouble with the correct comma placement. Please read the sentence below and explain as to where I should place the comma, whether the commas I have...

It's best to include the county unless it is a very large city, for example, London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Birmingham. You can save space by putting the town and county on the same line, with a comma between. You should include everything you have room for but in theory post will arrive at the...

Oh, and one more thing: I don't want it to be huge in terms of lines needed. Is it okay to thus write "U.K." right after the postcode, separated by a comma? Or does it need to be in a separate line?If I got it correctly, it would then mean I needed 6 lines just for the address, plus phone and fax...

He was awarded a contract up to a limit of Rs.15,00,000.The usual punctuation for sums of Indian money above a lakh is with a comma after the number of lakhs: Rs. 30,52,000 (i.e., 30 lacs and 52,000) instead of 3,052,000.