By Capital letters, Punctuation

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...

I like the 2nd stanza. Does your edition of Emily D give her unusual punctuation? She has a particular way of using dashes and capital letters — like — this: A Tear here — a Tear there — Kin — really mourning — Silence here — Silence there — Cadaver — gone by Morning. 'Cadaver' is good. I'm...

Go through it and fix the spelling, punctuation, capital letters and so on, as you clearly have the English language ability to do so. This will make it far easier for us to read and therefore help you. First tip though, you need to make it clear in the very first paragraph that you are writing...

They are all grammatically correct. (I'm assuming you meant "huge" for "hue".) The problem is with capitalization and punctuation. With that as your clue, maybe you could resubmit them with what you believe are the corrections, and we'll comment on them further. More hints: Besides capital...

Focus Magazine, September 04: Correspondence is taking longer to read because of poorly punctuated email, according to optometrists at the University of Bradford. They discovered that missing fullstops and capital letters are behind the time-wasting trend. View the full press release here. By...

Hi Daniel, Your question got misinterpreted somewhere. It doesn't work if A had no vision (blind), B had one eye, and C was blind too. You need A and B to have at least some vision. Then person C can answer the question. Let's modify your question so that it can be answered. Of 3 prisoners...

How about this?? "You can/may download the/our demo from the/our website and test it. Then you can purchase it from our site, so it's not necessary to go to the escrow system" Second sentence also: "It can only be purchased from our site..." Avoid repetitions such as "can" or "site" and be...

From "A Grammar of Contemporary English", by R. Quirk et al. Both question and exclamation mark exclude the use of other separation punctuation and have the value of a period inasmuch as what follows begins with the capitalisation of a new sentence. But when they co-ocur with the end of...

Thanks very much for taking the time to post this FAQ! I am new to this forum and looking for information on the use of the en dash and em dash. I am a graphic designer and web designer. I am currently taking a course in which the instructor provided the following information about these...

Hi, If my child was marked down because she used a capital letter for words in a spelling test, I’d be angry with the teacher. When I went to school, my spelling exercises tested for spelling not style. However, if your child is a high school student and if the teacher was marking hard, then...