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Sorry to be so long, but I have been looking for a good comprehensive internet source on dashes; all the information seems to be in bits and pieces, and some of it is quite contradictory. Here is a good excerpt, however, from the Get it Write website: 'A number of you have written to ask us to...

An ellipsis, according to one style guide, consists of three dots. The first dot is adjacent (no space) to the preceding word (or number, in your case). There is then a space between each of the 1st and 2nd dots, and the 2nd and 3rd dots. Immediately following the 3rd dot comes either a period...

Hi Guest! Corrected versions: 1. What must a family do to adopt a child? 2. Read this book about adoption. 3. What a huge number of laws there are! 4. Approval for adoption may take a year or more. Seems like your only problem is capitalization and punctuation-- or were you just not careful...

Hi Matthewg, Actually, I agree with Garbl. I think he is advocating not to capitalize the first letter for aesthetic reasons. If parenthetic sentences are capitalized, then the eye is confused when reading. Remember, people usually read at a fast pace (especially in today's business...

The rules of punctuation are confusing for a number of reasons, primarily: (1) the British rules are different from the American rules; (2) the rules are set by publishers, not by history, and different publishers may choose to set different standards, and (3) the rules change much, much faster...

As a professional DTP person, I originally learnt, when learning to type, to have two spaces after a full stop, one after other punctuation. I then read a publication by Adobe, which explained that in the days of monospaced typewriters it was necessary to have two spaces after a full stop because...

Is there a correct English format for bullet or number lists? I prepare technical documents and manuals with many bullet lists. I use bullets when no sequence is required. I use numbering when a sequence is needed. After bullets should punctuation follow with nothing, comma, or semicolon? The...

From Collins Cobuild: Examples ..from about the fourth month of gestation, and appears to be involved in.. ..36th week of gestation on embryos of less than six month's gestation. ..her birth length by about 20 weeks gestation, but she does not reach half her.. ..systems. The final 30 weeks...

Hi, If my child was marked down because she used a capital letter for words in a spelling test, I’d be angry with the teacher. When I went to school, my spelling exercises tested for spelling not style. However, if your child is a high school student and if the teacher was marking hard, then...

My little technical objections: 1. "distraught" is not a noun 2. should be "who shareS" 3. fourth line makes no sense to me; what trip? 4. "a place in my lot"???? 5. should be "share WITH you" 6. should be "this message" 7. should be "writers," no apostrophe 8. "thee" is archaic, and seems out...