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I believe it is common to both varieties of English Ahava that a comma is used for informal greetings and a colon for a business letter

Hi For a letter in the greeting part Dear usually ends with a comma if I m remebering it right I found one article on the website says that if you really want to make it formal you need to put a colon instead of a comma Is that so Or to put a comma or a colon concerns with the different ways...

In the first sentence is the moon a beacon for the earth bound navigators or are the navigators a beacon for the moon As the sentence stands the prepostional phrase of earth bound navigators modifies the noun beacon telling that the navigators are the beacon for the moon Did you mean for earth...

Your writing is not poor though it does need some work THIS IS A COMPOSITION SUBJECT Which would you choose a high paying job with long hours that would give you little time with family and friends or a lower paying job with shorter hours that would give you more time with family and friends...

Guest Post 46522 Please pay particular attention to 3 4 6 7 and 8 It is your job to provide the content check the spelling and provide the proper format We will assist you with the grammar portion And even then only to a limited degree We are not your personal editors Also we don t send answers...

The word should be lc Both semicolon and semi colon are accepted

I have seen this woord spelled four different ways What is the correct spelling if any Isthere any difference between them Example semicolon semi colon Semicolon Semi colon Thanks for your imput Jim Reeve reeve snip net

I think he says pretty much what I did if I classify what he says about R NR clauses as a problem of clarification subsumed under my Rule Of course there are more obvious places where commas are consistently needed like dates since no one seems to like the military system Then again you and he...

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