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#1 is not necessarily correct; it depends on which side of the Atlantic it is composed. BrE puts the period outside the closing quotation mark. Otherwise, your examples are fine; a colon would be somewhat misused here.Personally, I would go to reported speech except for longer quotations--...

We are all sure that this sentence is correct in the use of the punctuations for a quotation: 1. Tom said, "I am a teacher." I wonder if I can make this one by imitating the one above: 2. Article 100 of the Civil Rights Act stipulates, "Blacks has equal rights to education with the whites."...

I hope this is of some help, Sheena, and I wish you luck in your correspondence with the professor. (Remember, in typing, to place two spaces after every period, before any sentence that follows.) Dear Professor ***, I am *** one of the students who participated in *** program last year. We...

I definitely like the second option, and I would use the articles after the colon as well. As you have no doubt seen, there is no fixed rule, but I like a sentence that flows naturally-- not telegram-speak, which is popular in some advertising copy.

Hi all! I'd like to know which of these versions is the most correct: "Windows XP has a lot of features such as clean and simple desktop, strong multimedia capabilities, Microsoft Office package, built-in firewall, IE 6.0, multitasking and symmetric multiprocessing support." or... "Windows XP...

Hi..how is everybody doing..Even though I don't post a lot,I still read most topics here...Anyways I was just wondering how can u spot the main ideas in an articles/text when u trying to take notes of it..For example Like the article below,I can see soo many ideas....... The more obese a person...

1-- Capitalize; if the quotation is set off syntactically from the matrix text by a comma, semicolon, or colon, the first word is capitalized, irrespective of its status in the original text. 2-- Mormons; no apostrophe 3-- Capitalize as in #1 4-- She is saying it. BrE (I believe) would...

Hi Jeff, Your first paragraph is rather attractive already. I would make an effort to discover the quote author's gender, in order to avoid the 'he/she' awkwardness. Here are some other words or phrases that need work: speaker (I'd change to 'writer' since it is not obviously from a...

Hi Chintu, welcome to the Forums, First of all, here is the wrong place for your post . Try to repost it to the writing section where it can get more attention from people who are interested in correcting others' writings. But here are a few hints: try to write your article using the Microsoft...

To me, the rules regarding punctuation around quotation marks are not always logical. To 'remember' them, I extracted the following from Webster's Third New International Dictionary: 13.1 Direct quotations: "When I am dead," said one of the keenest minds, "lay a sword on my coffin." 13.2 In...