By Spelling, Commas

This, is how I currently prefer to write. Using commas, to denote where I would pause, normally, in speech. I personally feel that it helps me to convey my message better, if it's read much like a telegram, and commas are used like *STOP* in a telegram.I would much appreciate some input on more...

Hi, I assume you are asking for someone to check this. my topic is controversal tv advertising, i am finishing mapping, so now i need to explain how to norrow my topic to a single spoke or sub header. i will explain the process You need various capital letters. In addition, you cannot...

Ever since its birth, this dog has been with Larry. Now, the dog was malodorous, old, crippled and blind, but Larry was always with it. (The adj. stinky is too colloquial to be employed in written English.) Larry's roommate, John, wanted to get rid of the dog because he was bothered by the...

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...

Two sentences must be expressed and punctuated as two sentences, not as a continuous stream of words separated by a comma. Tom is often* late for work. That makes his boss angry. *Note the spelling of often. CJ

Anonymous wrote: 1.Combine each set of simple sentences below to produce the kind of sentence specified in parentheses. 1) People begin to recycle. They generate much less trash. (Complex.) <No idea, but TIP: Using subordinating conjunctions!> 2) Environmentalists have...

Hi, Does a comma come before "and" when used in this way..... "Please joy us for hotdogs, carjackers, popcorn, licorice and soda." Some people will tell you 'Yes', but others, including me, will tell you 'No'. This use of a comma before 'and' is referred to as an Oxford comma. It gets debated...

Well first, punctuation is not usually included in grammar, and the former can be even slipperier than the latter. In this case (as in many), it is more a matter of what communicates most clearly. I think all of yours are OK; I do have opinions (see below), but they are not important:a "by the...

What Nona said, except with these additions: I don't think the four species relates to their lack of fear of humans, but it's set up that way. You can make them seperate sentences. Or you can include that bit of information elsewhere in the paragraph, such as by saying "The four species...

Welcome to the Forums, Oren. I'm really not good at reading long passages, so I went through the first paragraph and came up with a few suggestions. Pay attention to punctuation and spelling, you can write your text in a Word document first to get it spell-checked for you; however, even a...