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

As you can see, the reason a comma is often ... at first seem to form part of the previous clause. My first , which wants a comma, means something like "and therefore"; my second , which wants to go commaless, ... have ignored this

We started the company in 1999 which was also the year i got married. We started the company in 1999; that was also the year i got married. I really like the apartment that i'm living in at the moment. These are awkward but fine, note the

First of all did you want to kill the strategy?Executed means killed,the right word would be executive.The best thing might be good to do is to put heading at the top and then explain it either by a paragraph or bullet points. However in resume

I have a question that I can't seem to find a consistent answer on and would appreciate any help you can give. I am writing my resume and have this bullet point: - Executed strategic and tactical corporate and product marketing programs,

Hi I'm trying to figure out the following text Try it with this map: "c) (1.) Each front dry-weather tyre, when new, must incorporate 4 grooves which are : (1.1.) arranged symmetrically about the centre of the tyre tread; (AND) (1.2.) at

From Gregg Reference Manual: Heading: Indicate the name and address of the organization sponsoring the news release. * Show name and phone numbers of the person to contact in case more information is needed. * Indicate when the

It may be acceptable to capitalize an independant clause following a colon, but why bother? See: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/c.html ---last paragraph under "Capitalization".

When is it proper to capitalize after a colon? Only when a complete sentence follows it? Thanks!!!

Dena Jo and others want a way other than ASCII IPA to represent pronunciation. I have objected to ad hoc transcriptions because there's no way to pin down what the symbols stand for. It has occurred to me that we have a ready-made system