In British English^x, Commas^x

1. I came across the following: “When conversing with women, men will remove their hat.” a. Is ”hat” correct here, or should it be replaced with “hats”? This seems to cause a lot of questions. Because it is clear that any one man will be wearing only one hat, and no two men can be weaing...

Hi! 1. I came across the following: “When conversing with women, men will remove their hat.” a. Is ”hat” correct here, or should it be replaced with “hats”? b. What would the equivalent sentence in the singular sound: ”When conversing with a woman, a man will remove his hat”? 2. I...

Goodman wrote: Fleder, "Mr Tom" in British English- Are you sure of that? Or you just think you are correct? "Mr." is the abbrivation of "mister" and all abbrivations by rule should have a "period" or "stop" at the end, no matter it's BrE or AmE. It's like "F.B.I" and "The U.N.". Don't be...

Hi LiveinJapanWhat does the letter indicate is a sign that Amarin, Ltd., is doing very well? What is a sign? (An interrogative main clause.)does the letter indicate? (An embedded question within the main clause.)that (a conjunction)that Amarin Ltd. is doing very well (that-clause; I would drop...

Thanks, Babara. Whether or not it makes sense, the period or comma ALWAYS goes inside the quotation marks. In this case, I prefer British English because which punctuation marks we have to insert is dependent on logic.

Marvin A. wrote:I've never seen this one tho': September 22 2006 (without comma) That would look rather strange. It's from Office English Marvin A. wrote:Personally, I prefer to always use the ISO 8601 standard and write YYYY-MM-DD.I like a day-month-year sequence. From Oxford handbook of...

MrPedantic wrote:Oh yes, use "and stuff" all the time. Use it for "etc.", or when you can't think of anything else to say, e.g.MrP: "Well, um, you know, er, not really. Just, um, watched tv and stuff."That's interesting. I thought the expression "and stuff" was only used in American English....

Thanks everyone. I'm in Australia, and we tend to use British English more often than American. I'll leave the commas out

Hi AnonYou can by all means have a lot of intent in your letter but no indention is necessary these days. (Just referring to a previous reply.) I have got(ten) the impression from my British friends' letters that commas are out of style in British English. (However, I don't know your nationality...

Dawnstorm wrote:Both are correct. American English favours the comma; I'm not sure if British English has a preference.There are sentences, where the comma before the "and" is essential, even if you favour leaving it out.Listing book-titles: Jane Eyre, Romeo and Juliet, and Oliver Twist. (That...