By Commas, Apostrophes

Re: Help with Punctuation - Part 3

Re: 1)How can we call the package that helicopters throw on the land when t

Mister Micawber wrote: 1) What can we call the package that helicopters throw on the land when there is a catastrophe happens? -- (Emergency) Aid packages? Air drops? 2) About punctuation, should we punctuate before or after the : She told me," I want to go out. " or She told me," I want to...

Re: 1)How can we call the package that helicopters throw on the land when t

1) What can we call the package that helicopters throw on the land when there is a catastrophe happens? -- (Emergency) Aid packages? Air drops? 2) About punctuation, should we punctuate before or after the : She told me," I want to go out. " or She told me," I want to go out".) -- Most...

Re: Comma's and quotation marks

Nevermind where the commas go, where do the apostophes go? Here 'commas' is a plural noun and therefore does not need an apostrophe!

HELP ME CORRECT THESE SENTENACES

Read each of the following short passages. Correct the mistakes by re-writing the sentence in the box. There are no correct sentences; each example has at least one error in it. Parts of the passage may be correct. You need only re-write the sentence that you are correcting in some way. Errors...

Re: Inverted Commas Aound "Slang"

We all have brain cramps from time to time. It's an apostrophe. And no, do NOT use one to form a plural. The results of the questionnaires, with no '

Re: Comma Usage

Hi, I was wondering if my comma use in the following sentence is correct:Because safety of our staff and guests is our main concern, and to comply with government regulations, we are ceasing operations until these vital systems can function properly.The first comma is used after an introductory...

Comma Usage

Hi,I was wonering if my comma use in the following sentence is correct:Because safety of our staff and guests is our main concern, and to comply with government regulations, we are ceasing operations until these vital systems can function properly.The first comma is used after an introductory...

Descriptive/Informative Essay

My assignment is to type a Descriptive/Informative Essay. I am graded 50% on content, 40% on grammar and mechanics, and 10% on style. Could anyone read my essay and suggest some corrections? Please bold or make corrections visible. The help will be greatly appreciated.Here are grammatical...

Re: Apostrophe

--- There was formerly a respectable tradition (17-19c) of using the apostrophe for noun plurals, especially in loanwords ending in a vowel (as in We do confess Errata's, Leonard Lichfield, 1641, and Comma's are used, Philip Luckcombe, 1771) and in the consonants s, z, ch, sh, (as in waltz's and...