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. Hello lapislazuli, and welcome to English Forums.1. Do I use a dot after Mr in the salutation?-- No dot is becoming the accepted form, but both are OK.2. Do I use a comma or a colon or nothing at all after the salutation? -- Most use a colon for a business letter-- but again, I believe that BrE...

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. (This lesson focuses mainly on the period,...

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. (This lesson focuses mainly on the period,...

I sometimes use the word "clever" when describing a person.Here it is clear that the full stop has nothing to do with the quoted word and is part of the main sentence. The word "clever" doesn't need its own full stop. If we are quoting somebody speaking, then the quoted speech needs its own...

Semicolon use A semicolon following an independent clause (The Longman Writer's Companion). source: http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/#14

I agree with the sentiment but not with your punctuation. (Ignoring the fact that you begin a sentence with "But") Eimai, According to H.W. Fowler, Modern English Usage and the OED. it is an "outworn grammatical pedantry, a superstition, to believe that beginning a sentence with And or But...

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...