For a start you need to give these a capital letter: Saturday, Sunday, Jane, Paul, I and the first letter in all sentences. Then all sentences need to end with a full stop (period). sentence 1 - I'd drop the first comma. sentence 2. I don't

I´m so happy to found this forum!!! It would be a great if someone could answer this questions: 1. "enclosure/s" at the end of a letter: what is the right way of typing? Can I type the whole word or only short form (Enc. Encs (for more than 1),

I know this is ancient, but you bother because a colon can be difficult to see in many fonts, and the capital letter helps to reaffirm its presence.

I agree with the sentiment but not with your punctuation. (Ignoring the fact that you begin a sentence with " But") Eimai, According to H.W. Fowler, Modern English Usage and the OED. it is an "outworn grammatical pedantry, a superstition ,

Hello MrP, how are you? I got the paper back with comments by a referee. So I changed a few things and I have some doubts: 1) “The Pyrrhonist’s ataraxia and philanthropia: On the Aim and Character of Sextus Empiricus’ Skepticism.” Last time you

slag wrote on 15 Dec 2004: I'm looking at Webster's "English Grammar Handbook," and it indicates that a capital should used after a colon if the 2nd main clause is also an independent clause. Page 166 if anyone has it. A capital

The colon's fine. But lose the capital letter immediately after it. Many will tell you no colon is fine.J. B. S. Haldane, for one. Jerry Friedman

wrote on 15 Dec 2004: The colon's fine. But lose the capital letter immediately after it. Many will tell you no colon is fine. But they'd also tell you that is has to be replaced by something: either a period or "because" (in

wrote on 15 Dec 2004: The colon's fine. But lose the capital letter immediately after it. Many will tell you no colon is fine. But they'd also tell you that is has to be replaced by something: either a period of "because" (in

Am I using the colon correctly in the following sentence? ... restates the first. Or am I up in the night? The colon's fine. But lose the capital letter immediately after it. Many will tell you no colon is fine.