By Punctuation, Articles

1. Can you tell me which words are right for the sentences below? I am riding/taking a bus. -- Both are OK; taking is more common/natural for mode of transportation. I take/ride an airplane -- Ditto I waited at the bus stop for half an hour/half hour. -- Half an hour or a half hour All ...

1. Can you tell me which words are right for the sentences below? I am riding/taking a bus I take/ride an airplane I waited at the bus stop for half an hour/half hour. All is/are fine. 2. Why the sentences below do not have articles for the nouns? What is the reason? Vehicle is the...

Hi My Boss, I am a teenager who was born on a (article) day of Sagitarius, (punctuation) I live in the sunny side of life, (punctuation) The Maldives and I am (agreement) a memeber (sp.) of the ALAM family. I am intrested in gothic and futuristic graphics I usually listens (agreement) to...

I have the following sentence: "One problem with the format of this book is that generally his newspaper articles were referring to current events, which are of course, now past events." I am struggling to decide where the commas should be. I believe the first one is correct and the second is...

Here is another interesting question. From what i understand, italics replaced the need for underlining for books and using quotation marks for periodicals. Is this true. What about leaflets or handouts. "The tracking form and Dental Progress Notes were changed." Dental Progress Notes may...

First, the dash is used in formal writing. (I don't know about religious writing.) Second, there is no direct substitute for the dash. One would have to rewrite the sentence. Where the dash is used to emphasize a sentence element, the comma provides less emphasis and sometimes less clarity. ...

Hello guys. I asked for the help, but I did not have a chance to finish my work and post it here, 'cause I was on business trip. Now I am back and I have finished my essay. I will appreciate if someone could give his/her opinion on my work. It might need corrections - structure, word order,...

1-- Punctuation is OK, but titles should generally be made short enough not to require any. 2-- I suppose you are talking about looking down on other people. I like A the best: Don't Look Down on People.

1)can i use punctuation in the title of the article? 2)Can i use the following phrases to expess the title of the article? (a) Don't look down people! (b)Bad attitude--looking down people (c)looking down people (d)Of these habits,looking down people is the worst

The perfect virtue is one’s cultivated moral character which is the outcome of enlightenment that treating people equal and with respect “as if receiving an important guest” was the only way of living well. I quoted "as if receiving an important guest" from an article but did I use the...