Hi, If I use a colon at the end of a paragraph, does this show the following paragraph is subordinate to the first, and, if so, should i indent the following paragraph? The fact that you indent is enough to show 'subordination'.

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

I work for an online editing and proofreading service where we see many, many letters of motivation. Please see my profile for more information. I won't revise your whole letter here, but I will show you the changes I would make to your first

Hello: I work for an online proofreading and editing service. Please see my profile for more info. I won't revise your whole essay here, but I will show you the changes I would make in your first two paragraphs (which I have combined into

Althought one of our illustrious members really advises against the semi-colon in general, I'm nearly as strongly opposed. However, I would say that three in one paragraph is too many. One is usually more than enough. (No more than one per

I work for an online editing and proofreading service. Please see my profile for more info. I won't go through the whole letter here, but I will show you how I would revise the first paragraph. Dear __ __: Although I am grateful for the

I will join you on the bandwagon that says that ... should NOT be used as a stand-in for almost any conceivable general punctuation mark. The more Internet writing I read, the more I wonder if anyone is being taught how to use a period, a comma, a

I won't do the whole letter, but I will do an edit of the first paragraph (including the salutation). Here's my edit. To The Selection Committee: I recently graduated from the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan with a ___degree in __ __. The

These punctuation marks (the British call them inverted commas ) come in two forms, double and single. The double quotation marks (opening “ and closing ”) are used to enclose the words of a direct quotation: She said, “I’ll never see you again.”

Hello, I am going to put my suggestions and corrections next to your words, but they will be in bold, in paraenthese, and on the right side of the word(s) so you know which word and what my suggestion is. Is that ok with you? Tell me what you