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This one is even better: Larry, where Joe had had "had", had had "had had." "Had had" had had the teacher's approval. ;) Actually you can just leave it this way: "Larry where Joe had had had had had had had had had had had the teacher's approval." Then ask a bunch of friends if...

I scrolled up to my previous paragraph and took care of that. You are right, of course. Skitt (in Hayward, California) www.geocities.com/opus731/

Style gurus, British and American, agree that a parenthetical clause can be set inside parentheses or inside a pair of dashes. The dashes usually impart more force to the interjected material (one of my style guides ascribes "violence" to pairs of dashes, bespeaking a rather delicate...

All I can say is that I'm influenced by the punctuation usage I was taught in childhood in a land far away. The m-dash was called, and I'm translating it literally, a "thought sign". That was meant to indicate that what followed it was a thought relating to what was written...

it was suggested that I use a dash for the clause after 'first'. Let's look at that possibility: #begin quote Why not make two sentences? But, of course, the writer is really closely connecting the first with the second, even making the first and this is where the trouble comes up...

Help with punctuation of sentence The wound was cauterized with the Bovie however blood continued to ooze from the lateral edge

Help with punctuation of sentence The patient stated Im very unhappy today

Certainly, anyone would understand that, so you are communicating effectively. The punctuation is a little strange though - "white" and "automatic" should not be capitalized. Also, you would normally say "it", not "she". (I know there was a thread about the use of "she" with cars recently, but...

That's pretty good as it is, actually. Only one piece of punctuation missing - there should be an apostrophe in "wind's", because apostrophe-s denotes possession. It's as if you had said "The power of the wind...". Rommie

I've just added this to the grammar FAQ page. Thanks Rommie, I'm sure many students will find this extremely helpful!