I know what you mean there are several vqariations ... The parks were the one thing she'd grown to love... OK, but now let's reflect on your dashes above. Dashing as you may want to be and I'm one ... that does not sit well. Anyway,

Emily Dickinson, who used it's in both cases, didn't. Was this convention firmly established in Dickinson's day? I honestly don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if she were using legitimate contemporary orthography. She

(Email Removed) (Mark Brader) wrote on 08 Nov 2003: Paulo V.: Agreed, and a style manual should be consulted if one of these four structures *must* be used. They are all bad style becaue they promote unnecessary and unwanted ambiguity, so the

Paulo V.: They presented four phrases Sentences. and asked me which one was correct: (flag#1 = red/white/blue; flag#2 = green/yellow) 1. The two flags were red, white ... white, and blue and green and yellow. 4. The two flags were red, white, and

... 4) .. man is the king of the universe. Man is king of the universe. Or... The man is king of the universe. The two sentences have very different ... of humanity. The second implies that one person, out of all of humanity, holds the title

I've just seen such an exercise: Put commas where necessary to make the sentence correct: In the exam John where ... night. I just cannot get what the author is trying to elicit. Is it a kind of joke or what? It is a kind of joke, and it is

Hi, a compound sentence has two ideas joined together. Here is information from Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language A compound sentence is a sentence consisting of two or more main CLAUSES. The clauses may be linked by a

Such a wide open question. But, hey, I like to talk. Use a semi-colon to connect two related independent clauses. "They took the money from the vault; they took it quickly." -Related ideas, clauses stand on their own, semi-colon is OK.

When to use them? Does anybody know?

Thus spake Padraig Breathnach: Jeez, Charles, you went through the whole book to see ... trust that I am sure you will agree is well-founded. Number one I'd be a Poor Rig if I weren't a speedreader when I want to be, and number two there