By Capital letters, Punctuation

Hello, You certainly should not put a space before punctuation marks, even in everyday language. Capital letters should be saved for proper nouns, acronyms, and the start of sentences but you are quite right, people do throw them around in a very random fashion. It is not correct though.

Hello. I wonder if anyone here could set things straight for me how to use basic punctuation, space and capital letters. Online computer games, the web and english television series/movies being my most source to learning english (I have no real english education from school), I find it most...

(1)Minimize the typos and being more careful with punctuation and spacing. And also capitalization! (2)Always leave one space after the comma and one or two spaces between two sentences . (3)Use a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence but not in the middle. Thank you. I got it!

Hly, You can start making yourself look MUCH better just by minimizing your typos and being more careful with your punctuation and spacing. And also capitalization! Please make sure to always leave one space after the comma (but not before) and one or two spaces between two sentences...

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, to believe that beginning a sentence with And or But...

And my own pet peeve (taken from THIS SOURCE): You are not e.e. cummings When I get e-mails that employ only lowercase letters and skimp on the punctuation, I tend to assume that the sender is either 4 years old or is using one of his hands to type and the other to excavate his aural...

The advice from bulenteren is very good. Comment: "Yours faithfully," is used in very formal business letters. I would not use it in a message to my boss or to my fellow workers. I would use an informal greeting such as: All the Best. Best Wishes. That's all for now. Bye. Ciao. Till...

Your revision got rid of the two birds, but the 'competitor' line is 'way out of meter. Iambic pentameter is simple-- it is the natural rhythm of much of spoken narrative English. The trick is that you must compose lines whose natural spoken cadence matches this form; the word stress and...

1. We are here to help you learn how to write letters in the English language; we are not a letter-writing service. Do not simply ask us to write your letter for you, or give you an example letter. We will not do this. 2. Before you post, search our threads for examples of the kind...

Hi Jazz, Thanks for saying I could correct your post on line. Re: your reply to Ali; 1. In English we always begin a new sentence with a capital letter, and we use a capital letter for people's names, and for names of places such as London, the Indian Ocean etc. So your greeting should...