Hi I am prestly in an Adult Reading Class. My teacher and I are in a dispute over the punctuation of this sentence: Teacher's Sentence: The sign read "Place Homework Here!" . As you can see, the teacher is not putting a common after

Does anyone know the "formal" or "technical" name for the words that announce the speaker? She said," In a long speech quotation marks appear at the beginning of each new paragraph, and end when the speaker has finished." In the above

I have two questions concerning quotation marks. The first is; When in a paragraph a person is thinking a sentence or two, and these are strictly thoughts that are not actually spoken, are quotation marks used in the same way one would quote a

Hi to All, I wonder why most people today say, "Hi all," in email salutations. Is that correct? Also, in greetings -- Don't we say, "Good Morning," rather than, "Good morning"? Should the question mark in the above sentence be inside or

Q: Can somebody tell me what the hell s.t. is? ... I. A2: Some of those who are smarter than I. Excellent! It is delightful to see such responses. This was one of the objectives of this inquiry. It is also sort of a puzzle. The

When you know your family will add a new member, you are sure of one thing: you are determined to do everything in your power to give your new family member the best possible start in life. Nature has equipped human beings with an

Well, you're right :) The thing to note is, it's meaningless to discuss if saying it is grammatically correct.. We're talking about HOW you express that meaning. However, "go on a strike" in Google returns 5,980,000 hits. You

I would, but not necessarily using quotation marks. I took your example to imply that you would use them. How about the capitalization on "The"? Good question. It could go either way, but the proper way is probably to capitalize it. You

Would you similarly write "The Beatles" appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show . I first saw "The Beatles" in 1965. I would, but not necessarily using quotation marks. I took your example to imply that you would use them. How about

I wouldn't either, as the group's name is "The Beatles". I would write it as "The English group 'The Beatles' recorded /Love Me Do/". Would you similarly write "The Beatles" appeared on The Ed Sullivan