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.He usually has a shower, and then he has a shave and brushes his teeth.He usually has a shower; then, he has a shave and brushes his teeth.This is a mundane description of a daily activity. The semicolon and subsequent comma in the second sentence break the sentence into formal segments that do...

Hello Mister Micawber,I would like to thank you for your comment. Could you elaborate on the awkwardness of my punctuation, please?Is the matter a rule of grammar rather than a form of awkwardness? Well, I have found 'and then' is a complex subordinator under 'Coherence: Transitions...

This is a conversational/informal form of wording that you could write in any of a number of different punctuation styles. For example: You hired her. You fire her. You hired her, you fire her. You hired her; you fire her. You hired her -- you fire her. You hired her ... you fire...

Hello Mister Micawber,I appreciate your kind reply. Here, I would like to point out the second sentence that has two independent clauses joined by a conjunctive adverb is required to be separated by a semicolon. Further, a comma is then needed after the conjunctive adverb 'then'. I have...

.He gets up at 6.15 am and goes to the bathroom. He usually has a shower, and then he has a shave and brushes his teeth. He eats breakfast at about 7.00am. After breakfast, he reads the newspaper.1. Is the extract above punctuated correctly? -- It is now.2. Why are commas required in the first...

The following is an extract from 'Things Mr Bean does every Monday morning' that is found in Learn English Online -free beginners course-Unit 3,Lesson 11.He gets up at 6.15am, and goes to the bathroom. He usually has a shower, then he has a shave and brushes his teeth. He eats breakfast...

Hi,Can you please correct the following text for any grammatical/punctuation errors?Royal Bank of Scotland today issued a bearish outlook for global stock and credit markets. RBS expect S&P 500, a proxy for global equities, to drop by almost 25% from the current levels, and credit spreads –...

Jaishree, The second one is correct because it contains the auxiliary verb ("is") and punctuation (the period or full-stop at the end). Without the verb, in particular, the first line is not actually a sentence. For clarity, you can always rearrange the wording into the basic subject +...

Hi,Is the punctuation correct in this sentence? "We are proud to share with you some of the good works that have already been accomplished thanks, in no small part, to your contribution." "We are proud to share with you some of the good works that have already been accomplished,...

Is the punctuation correct in this sentence? "We are proud to share with you some of the good works that have already been accomplished thanks, in no small part, to your contribution." Thanks!