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Hello Georg The following words and phrases need repair At first or omit it entirely have gave in UNIVERSITY2 wrong preposition September 2000 I think I am a little late in helping you till change to through reasons needs a comma succeed in serving change to served Ordonnanzen staff needs a comma...

And I will respond to the punctuation question Here is the Short Course VERY SHORT PUNCTUATION GUIDE Very basic points about punctuation marks A COMMA isolates groups of words in a sentence in order to make the sentence meaning clear If you don t need one don t use it If you need too many you...

Hi Clive Descartes wrote Cogito ergo sum without a comma and without et OK But Lacan wrote Descartes Cogito ergo sum with semicolon I think therefore I am Would you say he was ungrammatical or just that Lacan uses different rules for grammar and punctuation just a evocation

I don t warm to the oxymoronic title it seems to belittle your statement After your first careful semicolon you have failed to punctuate adequately This is a wonderful phrase The air cannot weep itself clear I bow to your Muse Grammatically you have transiences which emulates itself No subject...

Why do you accept the period as a punctuation mark but ignore the comma semicolon and colon they have very important functions too and this piece is in dire need of a few of them There is no reason to capitalize ever There is no reason to separate extinguish and forever into two lines it just...

No pursue is wrong it should obviously be pursuit but you have dumped that for the rhyme and no other reason You are sacrificing meaning and poetic impact for cheap rhythm and rhyme and you re failing in the rhythm anyway The poet does not force words into form s he finds the fitting ones The...

Please tell me the correct usage of punctuation Specially colon semicolon Thanks Smita

1 is correct 2 is a comma splice two finite clauses no conjunction it needs a semicolon instead of the comma

The Titanic exhibition toured the following cities San Francisco California Denver Colorado Memphis Tennessee and Orlando Flordia do i a change all semicolons to commas b change all semicolons to colons c no changes are needed or d add a colon after cities Thanks for your help 8 l

I ve always found problems with punctuation How do i master it Is it correct using Ther are four choices a b c d Or we need semicolon instead of colon