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

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

. 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

Hello, I would be most appreciative if someone can help me with the following questions regarding punctuation, capitalization, and correct word choice. First, is it appropriate only to use a colon when one is listing words in a sentence. For

"Allah will find out the right men!", this is the ... be they are right, you stupid members of the coalition. This is an English language group, so: "May be" should be "Maybe" as in the following sentence. Maybe they

I can't contribute much to this discussion, except one thing I've learned in that era (roughly 1500-1700) there was a school of thought concerning punctuation that is totally different from the modern concept. Instead of being tied to

> 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

I believe that many sentences called 'run-on' are really not, ... post-modernist punctuation philosophy and know that others will surely disagree. Surely. I'm just saying. I used to agree but at some point determined that ... easily