Hi, Is it acceptable to use exclamation marks after colon such as: I was seeing something I never thought I'd see: my wife with another man! Is it okay to use exclamation mark after using colon? Alfa

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.

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.

Well traditional punctuation rules state that two independent clauses need to be separated either by a full stop / exclamation mark, or by a semicolon. Thus the following is quite proper: I hate him so much; he killed my dog. Now if you go back a

Welcome to Englishforums veronikad! Those keyboard symbols which show feelings are called emoticons or smiley. :-D  In maths, ' * ' this is called the times sign.  ;     -     semicolon ( )   -     brackets, round brackets,

Brunces wrote: Doubt #2 Sometimes, I see periods which contain direct speech within quotes. For example: The father arrived home and said , "Honey, I'm here!" and then dropped his briefcase on the couch. 1) Is the writing this period correct?

Hello, friends. Please, which is the correct way and why? Doubt #1 "color of the car" x "car color" x "car's color" "leg of the cat" x "cat leg" x "cat's leg" "pizza of yesterday" x "yesterday pizza" x "yesterday's pizza" I've heard that Genitive

A little, yes. Use a colon, perhaps, or even a question mark. Too many exclamation marks can look silly. (I use way too many in my e-mail to friends.)

I believe that the ghost that has appeared before me truly is my father’s spirit, and that everything it has said is true. The ghost did not flee before Horatio’s “cross,” and it shows Christian forbearance towards my “common” mother. Thus, I

In French you would leave a space between a word and a semi-colon, a colon, a question mark and an exclamation mark. By the way, there's another technical term in English for "suspention marks", what is it? All the best