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Hi,
When joining two complete sentences, does a comma come after a coordinating conjunction (for, and nor, but, or, yet, so)? Generally speaking, no. But it may optionally come before one.
Also should the title of short stores be
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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clive
205 days ago
Possessives, Pronouns, Colons, Commas, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Sentences, Speaking, Chat, Friendships
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When joining two complete sentences, does a comma come after a coordinating conjunction (for, and nor, but, or, yet, so)? Also should the title of short stores be italicized or underlined when the title of a book should be enclosed in quotation
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Commas almost always go inside quotation marks.
In other news, apostrophes are used for possessive nouns. "Commas" is correct. "Comma's" is not, unless you're referring to something that belongs to that comma.
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Hi, Would you say that this combination of the two modals "could" and "can" in my sentence incorrect or awkward in structure? I didn't even notice it. I suppose it's better to be comsistent, eg can/can, or just say
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Hi, How would you write these? Could a person take out quotation marks on no. 2? I think he/she can. They are often not used in such a context. I am puzzled or confused by the use of apostrophes in nos 1 and 3. Omit them. For no. 2, it could be
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Hi. How would you write these? Could a person take out quotation marks on no. 2? I think he/she can. I am puzzled or confused by the use of apostrophes in nos 1 and 3. For no. 2, it could be any well-known search engine besides Google ( I think
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Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.
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clive
1 yr 3 days ago
Capital Letters, Numbers, Colons, Commas, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Question Marks, Exclamation Marks, Hyphens, Semicolons
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Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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emchapps
1 yr 3 days ago
Capital Letters, Dates, Numbers, Colons, Commas, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Question Marks, Exclamation Marks, Hyphens, Semicolons
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One sentence does not begin with a capital letter (but ought to). One word beginning with "s" and one with "n" is misspelt. An apostrophe is missing. A quotation mark is opened but not closed.
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. Do we only use inverted commas to quote? What do you mean precisely by an 'inverted comma'? If you mean the marks that I have placed around 'inverted comma', then those serve as informal quotation marks, as quotation marks within
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