By Articles, Colons

Hi, Did you correctly use the singular verb here? Is that allowed because one person assumes the both positions? ... the chairman and managing director gives the presentation. In your opinion, why the sentce below is valid in that 'the' can be shared eventhough the positions 'president' and...

A comma-splice is: The mistaken effort to link two complete sentences with a form of punctuation inadequate to the task. "He had no evidence to support his argument, therefore he lost the debate to his rival" is a comma splice. The comma should be replaced by a semicolon or a...

Hi, I think th colon functions to clarify, define, or emphasizing the opening of the sentence. Do you the following sentences from the article named Picture Christ in the Christiantoday magazine are showing the correct usage when they seem to clarify only some parts of the opening...

Thanks very much, GG! «Can you say "An example" instead of "an experience"?» I am afraid I can't: I'm trying to keep to the original close. «(All academic titles have colons, don't they?)» No, not all of them, only 99% And what about: "An experience of Development...", with no article...

Hanuman_2000 wrote: Hello,I was reading an article on conjuction. It says that a conjuction is a word which merely joins words or sentences. It further says that relative pronouns and relative adverbs are also conjuctions but they do the other works also. My doubts are: 1. Are relative...

Yankee wrote:....... I'm not quite sure what the British "rule" for colons is, but I have seen the colon being used with direct quotes in British news articles, for example. I also seem to remember reading somewhere that the colon is used when it's a quotation that consists of one or more...

Hi Barbara Like you, I'm still in "comma mode" with quotations. I'm not quite sure what the British "rule" for colons is, but I have seen the colon being used with direct quotes in British news articles, for example. I also seem to remember reading somewhere that the colon is used when...

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. Just a quick question everyone. I never understood clauses and why they would be used. If anyone can shed light on this, I'd truly appreciate it. Below, I will give an example. Michael Jordan is a great athlete; he has won several championships. My question is...why...

Just a quick question everyone. I never understood clauses and why they would be used. If anyone can shed light on this, I'd truly appreciate it. Below, I will give an example. Michael Jordan is a great athlete; he has won several championships. My question is...why would that be used? I've...

A boy met this girl. They both had a fascination with grammar. The girl's family did not approve - he was from the school that did not use the Oxford comma. But she insisted it did not matter. Until the day she saw him use his red pen on a semi-colon; this was her pet punctuation mark. She was...