By Colons, Clauses

1)How can we correct the sentence: When the eggs hatch, the young turtles go off to take care of themselves, being that female turtles do not nurture their young a) add "on the other hand" at the beginning b) insert " as a result" at the bginning" c) change the comma to...

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...

Over the years, Cahokia people built more than one hundred earthen mounds of various sizes and functions around six open plazas. The remains of some of them can still be seen after five hundred years of erosion. Your sentence can be reworded as two sentences as shown above. If you join them,...

Can you explain further?Though using comma in this case seems more appropriate, I've learned that I should use semicolon to separate two clauses. How come? Thank you for replying.

The reason is that as a result, she cannot seem to get well is, in fact, a separate sentence separated by the semi-colon..

Hello,The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language states that the semicolon and colon are stronger than the comma. For example, if the former is placed on the right side of the sentence, the later will be placed on the left side of the sentence. However, why does the following sentence is not...

Welcome, ukcop999, to the forums. I'm going to answer the first question and let others welcome you and answer the others. (If questions are totally unrelated, it is sometimes more convenient to ask them in separate posts. A semicolon (;) divides two independent clauses which could be...

Hi,Some time back, I asked a question on conditionals and I think CalifJim said something like there are many tenses in the English language and it is possible to use any combination in the if and main clauses. Only three has names but any combination is possible. How can we check for...

Hi,Is this a conditional sentence?If my sentence has a semicolon, would you say it is wrong?OrIf my sentence has a semicolon, would it be wrong?I think this is not a conditional sentence eventhough it has an if-clause.I would appreciate it if you bring some napkins when you come.

1. I don't know that this is anything to do with metonymy, but, yes, "the one" = "his life" and "the other" = "his money". 2. Yes, it's an incomplete sentence, but clauses separated by semicolons don't have to be complete sentences. A good deal...