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Thank you very much for your help dear teachers. Do you think my topic sentence is OK? Is the topic of my paragraph narrowed down enough? Is the controlling idea of my paragraph clear and focused? Is my paragraph unified (do all my sentences support my controlling idea?) and are they coherent...

Here are some grammar, punctuation and spelling corrections for you. You may feel they are a little "strict". However, written and spoken English are necessarily a little different, since the "writer" is not there to explain what he means ...more detail is needed as well as separating the...

Hello. These marks are called quotation or quote marks. Your examples are correct. when one person's speech continues over to another paragraph, you do not 'close' the quote marks at the end of the first (or more) paragraphs. You close the quote marks when they have finished speaking. The...

Proper nouns should be capitalized: "(it talks about Steve Biko, a human rights leader in South Africa, who is dead and Donald Woods, a journalist, who decides to investigate about his death) " If you do not take care in typing and proofreading yourself before you post, it is difficult for us...

Cute idea, Nav. I have added some internal notes: "LOVE" is a most important and a very delicate word. Though I am not an expert, here is my definition of the word. The word 'LOVE' can be expanded in the following way: L for Longing O for Observing V for Valuing E for Emoting

I am struggling with the following three paragraphs; I keep changing the punctuation and though I have read through many posts on this forum, I'm still not sure if they are correct. Any help would be very much appreciated!! This book isn't just a bunch of information about trends or business...

And how about this, from the second paragraph of the 'Eats Shoots etc' excerpt?-- Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under a powerful magnifying glass; you name it. Shouldn't those...

First of all, I want to thank you for correcting the exercise. I don't think my grammar is poor at all but I respect your opinion. English is for me a second language so I admit I still need to improve my punctuation, but I wouldn't say my grammar is "poor". I'm surprised you don't know what...

I just had a quick look at it. Here are some quick comments: 1) Some minor grammar and punctuation stuff. Given that you were an editor, I expect you to go through your material with a fine tooth comb and pick it up. 2) Your word count is 1097, about 10% longer than the maximum length...

Hi, The challenge is yours. I will help you, but I won't write your essay for you. They are looking to see you express yourself. If I were you, I would have an outline similar to the following: 1) Who you are and what your ultimate career goal is. 2) Describe your strengths. Give evidence...