You cannot italicize and you cannot underline? Then and only then, go ahead and use the quotation marks. Don't use the colon.

Thanks, everyone. According to The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style: With other punctuation Put commas and periods inside closing quotation marks; put colons and semicolons outside. Other punctuation, such as exclamation

I have a question about the meaning of the clause "That is all I know" in boldface in the text below (which is itself a translation from another language). My question is: Does the clause "That is all I know" refer to what is

Hi, 1.They say, 'come sunshine or high water, the post will get delivered' More accurately, this is the common saying. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their

1.They say, 'come sunshine or high water, the post will get delivered' is the first clause grammatically correct, if so what is it? a phrasal adverb? and what does it describe? if i were to change the 2nd clause to active voice: come

Hi, First, please note that all are incorrect because they lack capital letters. 'visa,mastercard, and citibank are all acceptable' OK or 'visa,mastercard, and citibank all are acceptable' OK, but less elegant

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. Would you please answer these two questions that pertain to the issue of connecting what looks to be two clauses? 1. Which punctuation mark should we use when we have two independent clauses that have (show) a relationship between them?

You have been consulting the wrong people. Without further punctuation, B is very wrong. These are your choices (note the colon in B): (A) The English language has a huge vocabulary of over 600,000 words. (B) The English language has a huge

The : is used for the listing of items such as "He had four cars: a red mustang, a blue corvette, a yellow charger, and a white porsche". The ; is used to link two independant clauses with the purpose of showinf an emphasized link