By Football, Commas

Ditto. Can I hijack the headline topic to trot out my favourite headline of all time? After the unlikely victory of the Caledonian Thistle football team over Scottish giants Celtic: Super Calley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious.

Well done, I knew you could do it . Two errors crop up throughout your essay; you need to capitalise 'I' and you need a space after commas and full stops (periods). You have quite a few errors with mixed tenses and ungrammatical constructions but I'd hate to do your teacher out of a job. I have...

Dear Mr. Ericson! Do not end a salutation with an exclamation mark. In US English use a colon :, in British English use either a comma or nothing.As you are already aware, Football Club “Shahter”(Donetsk) is about to build a new 5-star stadium, which meets all official UEFA requirements and will...

Ignorant88 wrote: I was told that when a parenthetical element follows a coordinating conjunction used to connect two independent clauses, we do put a comma in front of the parenthetical element. 1) The Tigers spend much of the season at the bottom of the league, and even though they picked...

I was told that when a parenthetical element follows a coordinating conjunction used to connect two independent clauses, we do put a comma in front of the parenthetical element. If there is an embedded interrupter in a clause, I set off them by a set of commas, dashes or parentheses. eg....

I was told that when a parenthetical element follows a coordinating conjunction used to connect two independent clauses, we do put a comma in front of the parenthetical element. eg. 1) The Tigers spend much of the season at the bottom of the league, and even though they picked up several...

Hi, I've gone through the first paragraph for you and highlighted problems in the rest. Your main difficulty seems to be the use of singular/plural, verb tenses and knowing when you need a determiner. There are other errors as well though. Once again, NO CAPITAL LETTER AFTER COMMAS! Nicely...

Hi Crazy-- I finally got here. I have added some comments in brackets after underlined 'problems':Do Sports and Drugs Mix? Since the dawn of time years while playing football and was the quarter back of our team. Everyone thought he was going to make it to the NFL but during our...

Hello Anon I would say no. You use a comma after And/But/So only when you want to indicate a natural pause, e.g. 1. So, you want to play for Manchester United, do you? – the comma indicates a pause after "So". 2. I want to play football for Manchester United. But I don't like Sir Alex...

Hi, "He had injured his knee in high school in a skiing accident while playing football." Hi, the grammar seems OK to me. It's a bit clumsy because you have two 'in' phrases in a row. A comma or two might also help. However, the meaning seems wrong. Was he skiing or playing football when he...