True, Anonymous! Pluralized acronyms should not use apostrophes. As an experienced English Tutor/Mentor, apostrophes are used in possession of & in contractions (i.e., Jane's cat won't eat fish.) To place an apostrophe after an acronym or

Daniel- Make sure that you find a name of a person to address the letter to (such as Dear Mrs. Jean Smith:) Make sure that you include the colon after the name and the word "dear" at the top. Do not have a semicolon after

I would consider both therefore and consequently correct for No. 1. For No. 2: He behaved as if he had committed a crime. Both as long as and because appear correct to me in No. 3. For No. 7, I suggest similarly ; because is impossible here:

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

Hi. When is it appropriate to use a semi-colon ";" mid sentence? When is it appropriate to use anything other than an ellipses "..." in a paragraph, sentence etc? For example would "He had too many.. One too many" OR

Thank you so much ! The website helps a lot ! Hmmm ... but ... the site said that dash can be used to emphasize on a point . Can it be use on any point? Does it have to be a sentence or can it be just a phrase ? E.g . But we managed to get

I find these rules at http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp very helpful. Rule 1 Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks, even inside single

Hi, Here is the sentence: "It tasted horrible; but, well, I didn't want to embaress my friend's mother." The semi-colon is not needed. The 'well' makes this an example of informal speech. You have a spelling mistake. Best wishes,

Okay then: Here are my comments. 1. Start with a capital letter. You hae a comma splice- you joined two complete thoughts with a comma. You need either a period or a semicolon (Sorry Clive.) 2. Start with a capital letter. The way it's

On the question of semi-colons, Clive will have noticed that my posts are full of them. This is partly because they are still in fashion in Italian and this probably influences me, although I did learn how to use them at school. It would be fine