By Apostrophes, Colons

Question: I would have written ''Clinton's turmoil''. Why didn't the author use apostrophe? It is a headline - they do not use standard grammar.Question: Why is semicolon used instead of comma to separate the email addresses above? Addresses are better separated by...

Memos show Clinton turmoilQuestion: I would have written ''Clinton's turmoil''. Why didn't the author use apostrophe?BY CRAIG GORDON AND TOM BRUNE | <email addresses removed by mod.>August 13, 2008Question: Why is semicolon used instead of comma to separate the email...

A boy met this girl. They both had a fascination with grammar. The girl's family did not approve - he was from the school that did not use the Oxford comma. But she insisted it did not matter. Until the day she saw him use his red pen on a semi-colon; this was her pet punctuation mark. She was...

I think nader75 wants to know when or how to use open and close parentheses, commas, apostrophes, periods, quotes, colons and dashes. Thirty-five years ago (more or less), I was delivered into this world by someone who called himself a "doctor". Mother had to undergo a C-section because I'd...

Hi, You don't need a semi-colon. With lil, there is usually an apostrophe added to indicate that some letters are omitted. Usually only one apostrophe is added. My heart was immediately taken over by this sweet lil' girl named Charlie. Best wishes, Clive

A is an interesting one, Hela. Dashes are presumably casual colons, and I find the same problem with both of them. If it looks too awkward or unclear, I recast as an unpunctuated clause.B-- This is one of the special cases in which you are permitted to use an apostrophe to make a plural; it...

1-- Capitalize; if the quotation is set off syntactically from the matrix text by a comma, semicolon, or colon, the first word is capitalized, irrespective of its status in the original text. 2-- Mormons; no apostrophe 3-- Capitalize as in #1 4-- She is saying it. BrE (I believe) would...

This is generally fine. There are a few things that need repair: learning it (comma) gang related (hyphen) hips allowing (comma) shirt and (comma) where the focus is (delete all except 'focus') News “A (punctuate or restructure the clause) comment, (no comma here or at the...

You can't put a semicolon before the 'however', because there is no independent clause preceding it. The bit needs re-working; it is awkward. You can keep the semicolon if you wish, but I would prefer a full stop and a new start on the complex sentence to follow: 'There are no absolute rights...

Hi, Is this following sentence grammatical: The rule is: the word "it's" (with apostrophe) stands for "it is" or "it has". I always believed that the stuff prior to the colon had to be complete sentence in its own right? What say you? MountainHiker