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Analyse the formality of the article in SCMP It is indispensable for us to use an appropriate style when writing. There is no doubt that formal style should be practiced for newspaper as objectivity and impersonality are important. South China Morning Post is one of the most prevalent...

Hi, Did you correctly use the singular verb here? Is that allowed because one person assumes the both positions? ... the chairman and managing director gives the presentation. In your opinion, why the sentce below is valid in that 'the' can be shared eventhough the positions 'president' and...

A comma-splice is: The mistaken effort to link two complete sentences with a form of punctuation inadequate to the task. "He had no evidence to support his argument, therefore he lost the debate to his rival" is a comma splice. The comma should be replaced by a semicolon or a...

Thank you. Let me rewrite my original question with proper articles: Is this the right use of a (semi, sorry)colon or more simply, is this the right sentence? OK, going back to the original tract, I am use to seeing semicolons being used with two independent but linked-in-content sentences,...

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...

To me, the rules regarding punctuation around quotation marks are not always logical. To 'remember' them, I extracted the following from Webster's Third New International Dictionary: 13.1 Direct quotations: "When I am dead," said one of the keenest minds, "lay a sword on my coffin." 13.2 In...

Why do you accept the period as a punctuation mark but ignore the comma, semicolon and colon?-- they have very important functions too, and this piece is in dire need of a few of them. There is no reason to capitalize 'ever'. There is no reason to separate 'extinguish' and 'forever' into two...

In the following three sentences are they punctuated correctly? Thanks for any help you can give me. 1. After he began the meeting he said " I am not staying." (Should there be a comma after said? Should the period be inside of the quotation mark?) 2. Have you ever read the article...

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