Below are my suggestions for your paragraphs. The crossouts are my deletions and the colo r bar words are my replacements. There is more than one correct way to say what you have to say. I gained experience have experiences working with older and

Hi, Generally speaking, a period sounds fine to me,. eg This is a picture of Napoleon. Is this the kind of sentence you want to write? Clive

1. Which punctuation mark should we use when we have two independent clauses that have (show) a relationship between them? Would a colon be correct?-- No. A semicolon or a full stop. (I presume that you are speaking of two clauses with no

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

They do basically say the same thing. There is no comma after "He is staying home" in either example. I would write it as follows: He is staying home doing what he does best, which is watching TV and talking on the phone,

. First, is it appropriate only to use a colon when one is listing words in a sentence. For example, "please bring the following items: socks, shoes, and a tie." Under what other circumstances can one use a colon?-- The colon is fine

Just a quick word from the technical writer: The en-dasy is used bascially to mean "to" for duration or qauntities. I can't make them on my laptop, but things like April 7-9 would have the en-dash. So would something like

> The only more formal you can get is to define "independent clause" as: "can be a complete sentence if put within an appropriate context," and "dependent clause" as not "can be a complete sentence if put

DC, can't get enough of them semi-colons. Jerry Friedman, can't get enough of them hyphens. I'll trade you guys most all of my semi-colons, a few of my hyphens, and all of my dashes, if a third dealer shows up, for a dozen colons, and

If, in my mind, horse B, based on the information I have researched, has a good chance of winning the race, so would I. Perhaps I misunderstood what you said above. In the given scenario you feel that horse A is twice as likely to win the race as