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The Painkiller — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:32:51 GMT

hey there ...

(Alexander &Hill, 2006) Itâs widely understood that it is far less costly to keep existing customer than it is to win new ones (p. 1), attracting new customers requires high costs on marketing campaigns that would include: advertising and promotion ..

Few questions please ..

- I would like to know if there is a need o put comma, dot after the two bracktes (text)

- are we supposed to put capital letter after the bracket like in (text) A strategy is ..

Finally,

I included International Business Machines's Strategy (IBM) in my term paper .. so how could i document it, since i am following the in-text citation way, i mean where to put this (IBM's official website, 2008)

IBMâs customer relationship management strategy:CRM strategy focuses on helping our clients.The potential benefits of our CRM strategy services include:- Ensured management buy-in and sponsorship of the CRM vision and business objectives- Alignment of the vision with shareholder and customer value

- Alignment of the strategy with the operations (marketing, sales, and service) by linking the value proposition with customer-facing process or channels.

Please answer as soon as possible .. Thanks in advance

Louis MacNeice - Sunday Morning

Mrav12 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:28:55 GMT

Hi i have an essay to write on Louis Macneice's - Sunday Morning. I was wondering if anybody could help me analyse it as i have a very hard time reading and understanding poetry. Any help would be amazing - meaning, use of enjambment, causuras, repetition, aliteration, assonance, etc. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out.

Louis MacNeice - Sunday Morning

Down the road someone is practising scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails,
Man's heart expands to tinker with his car
For this is Sunday morning, Fate's great bazaar,
Regard these means as ends, concentrate on this Now,

And you may grow to music or drive beyond Hindhead anyhow,
Take corners on two wheels until you go so fast
That you can clutch a fringe or two of the windy past,
That you can abstract this day and make it to the week of time
A small eternity, a sonnet self-contained in rhyme.

But listen, up the road, something gulps, the church spire
Open its eight bells out, skulls' mouths which will not tire
To tell how there is no music or movement which secures
Escape from the weekday time. Which deadens and endures.

Re: Help with Punctuation - Part 3

Yoong Liat — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:30:31 GMT

Anil17

Hi can someone please approve my answer to the following punctuation exercise. My punctuation marks answers are highlighted in red font.

Re-write the following, putting in capital letters, punctuation marks, apostrophes and quotation marks:

âWhat a strange trunk!" exclaimed John. âWhose is it?â

Itâs Captain Hardyâs,â replied his Uncle Dick. âIâll tell you about it if youâve time to listen.â

âIâm very sorry,(.) I can't stay just now, for I must be back at school by two oâclock. May I call again later in the afternoon?â

A full stop after 'sorry', as indicated in brackets. An apostrophe between n and t in can't. A comma after 'now'.

Re: Quotations, commas, and capitalization

Yoong Liat — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:41:18 GMT

Grammar Geek wrote:

Option 2 - you DO put the comma right before the quote and you DO start the quoted material with a capital letter.

Hi Barbara

It should be option 1.

Option 1. After a while, he said, âThe scars will fade.â (You DO start the quoted material with a capital letter.)

Option 2. After a while, he said, âthe scars will fade.â ( In this sentence, the quoted material doesn't start with a capital letter.)

Re: Quotations, commas, and capitalization

Grammar Geek — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:22:24 GMT

Option 2 - you DO put the comma right before the quote and you DO start the quoted material with a capital letter.

Re: Correct?

Buddhaheart — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:08:32 GMT

"Make up to (the âtoâ is not necessary) your mind for (space required after âforâ) yourself what you 'need' and will use the more (the underlined clause doesnât make sense or doesnât sound natural?), (This is a âcomma spliceâ. Start a new sentence if possible.) if (possibly âIfâ with a capital letter âIâ.âIfâ might not even be necessary) you already have a desktop that is still (The word âstillâ is redundant. Delete it.) running smoothly why buy a laptop? I'd say buy a PS3/XBOX360 and wait a lil (little?) bit more for (Wordiness. How about just âuntilâ?) the (a?) new (newer?) collection(series? model?) of laptops to come out, you'd (you then?) get a better laptop (Could use pronoun here like âoneâ?) for the same price (Lacking conjunction here?) you'd buy (pay?) for one now."

Re: Student's resume for scholarship (help me to admend)

Grammar Geek — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:49:23 GMT

Often things like this are listed in reverse chronological order -- that is, the most recent is first, and the oldest is last. When you get to 2007, you have so many things that a bulleted list might be better. Good luck with your scholarship application.

OBJECTIVE : DON KNOW WHAT TO WRITEâ¦(please advise) Only you know what your objectives are. What do you want to study? Why do you want to study it? My 8 year old has an abiding passion for sharks and wants to go to college to study marine biology so she can go on to study sharks in their natural setting. What do YOU want to do?

EDUCATION:

UPSR 2002 (SJK(C)FOON YEW 1, J.B) I have no idea what this means.

Secondary education ( SMK TAMAN DAYA 2, JB )

Form 1, 2003 : second place of the whole form 1 students.(2/415) Perhaps for all of these you could simply say "Class ranking: 2 of 415"

Form 2, 2004 : first place of the whole form 2 students (1/326)

Form 3, 2005 : PMR-6Aâs (highest mark in geography, kemahiran hidup 4 ) Do you not have a ranking here? Leaving it out makes it look like you went way down.

Form 4, 2006 : second place of the whole form 4 students. (2/234), (highest mark in physic , chemistry and biology subject ) Same as above, but say "Highest place in physics, chemistry, and biology." Don't use "subject."

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES: Use consistent capitalization. Start each one with a capital letter.

2003: Council member of the schoolâs badminton association, scoutâs group leader I don't know how it's written in your country, but here it would be "Scout troop leader."

2004: scoutâs group leader, participated in the schoolâs English Poem Recitation, second runner up for the (JPJ - what is this?) road safety competition organized by Shell Malaysia. Is this relevent to your academic achievements? Is the fact that Shell sponsored it important to this scholarship application.

First place in the science and mathematic inter-school competition.

2005: scoutâ group leader , vice chairman of the science and mathematic society , first place in the inter-school literature quiz competition.

don't leave a space before a comma - leave one after it.

2006 : vice chairman of the scoutâs troop , don't have a comma dangling out here unless there's another thing to list

2007 : chairman of the scoutâs troop, vice chairman of the science and mathematic society, council member of the interschool sports team, participate in first aid and basic fire fighting course organized by Malaysia Civil Defense force ,participate in the J.B Law Olympiad 2007, second place in the district drama competition ,second place in the district Biology competition , don't have a comma dangling out here unless there's another thing to list

Fluent in spoken and written:
English, Mandarin, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin, Cantonese

Re: can you say

Yoong Liat — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:49:55 GMT

Clive wrote:

Hi,

"Sorry that i didn't answer, my phone fell out because my battery was dead"

"Sorry that i didn't answer, my phone stopped working because my battery was dead"

You also need a capital letter ' I '.

Clive

Hi Clive

I notice you use a comma. Would it be better if the sentence were rephrased as follows?

"Sorry that I didn't answer. My phone stopped working because my battery was dead."

"Sorry that I didn't answer; my phone stopped working because my battery was dead."

Many thanks.

Re: tense-hadn't

Yankee — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:50:35 GMT

Newguest wrote:
HI
HI !

IS IT REALLY A BIG MISTAKE TO PUT A COMMA AFTER "ALI?" It is a little mistake.

WHY CAN'T WE SAY "A BAD LUCK" The word 'luck' is uncountable. You cannot use 'a' with an uncountable noun. You can say something such as 'a bit of bad luck' or 'some bad luck', however.

I WROTE "TODAY" AT THE END OF THE SENTENCE CAUSE, BUT MAYBE I'M WRONG, HE'S STILL ALIVE, THAT'S WHY I WROTE "HE WOULD SUFFER"

I KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING LIKE MIXED CONDITIONALS. I WROTE "HE HADN'T BEEN A BOXER" BECAUSE HE'S NOT ONE ANY MORE, That doesn't change the fact that you have begun a Type III conditional. The unchangeable fact is that he was a boxer and therefore the condition ("wasn't/hadn't been a boxer") is impossible to fulfil -- whether or not he is still a boxer is basically irrelevant. AND "HE WOULD SUFFER" CAUSE HE'S STILL ALIVE. As I see it, the problem with "would suffer" in your sentence is that, even with the word 'today' added, it could be interpretted as a reference to only now and the future.

THANKS

By the way, typing in all CAPITAL letters is known as "shouting" and is often seen as UNFRIENDLY.

Re: topic sentences

Feebs11 — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:58:34 GMT

Fortu wrote:
hi everybody...

I have to write 5 topic sentences about the Typhoon Krosa and I'm not absolutely sure whether I did it right. Would be very nice if someone could have a look at them and tell me, whether the sentences are good as topic sentences.

1) China's eastern coast prepares for tropical storm Krosa after it killed four people in Taiwan. (here I'm not sure whether I have to write Tropical Storm with capital letters) No, you don't need capitals.Also, omit the comma after Krosa.

2) Facing the approaching tropical storm Krosa, Chinese authorities have evacuated more than a million people. Fine

3) As Typhoon Krosa battered Taiwan, it killed five and injured more than 50 people. (Is this too short for a topic sentence? and would I have to say: ..., it killed five people and injured more than 50 people) It looks fine to me.

4) Typhoon Krosa lashed Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rains, killing four people and cutting power to nearly half a million homes. Fine

5) Although Typhoon Krosa weakens to a tropical storm, China is prepared for the worst and has evacuated southern Zhejiang and northern Fujian. (weakens or is weakening?) Either "As Typhoon Krosa weakens" or "Although Typhoon Krosa has weakened to..."

Well I'm not sure whether they are good like this, and I'm also not sure about the punctuation. Would be very nice if someone could help me. Have a good weekend....

Search results for 'tag:Commas tag:Capital letters' matching tags 'Commas' and 'Capital letters'

In-text Citation

Louis MacNeice - Sunday Morning

Re: Help with Punctuation - Part 3

Hi can someone please approve my answer to the following punctuation exercise. My punctuation marks answers are highlighted in red font.

Re-write the following, putting in capital letters, punctuation marks, apostrophes and quotation marks:

âWhat a strange trunk!" exclaimed John. âWhose is it?â

Itâs Captain Hardyâs,â replied his Uncle Dick. âIâll tell you about it if youâve time to listen.â

âIâm very sorry,(.) I can't stay just now, for I must be back at school by two oâclock. May I call again later in the afternoon?â

A full stop after 'sorry', as indicated in brackets. An apostrophe between n and t in can't. A comma after 'now'.

Re: Quotations, commas, and capitalization

Re: Quotations, commas, and capitalization

Re: Correct?

Re: Student's resume for scholarship (help me to admend)

Re: can you say

Re: tense-hadn't

Re: topic sentences

âWhat a strange trunk!" exclaimed John. âWhose is it?â

Itâs Captain Hardyâs,â replied his Uncle Dick. âIâll tell you about it if youâve time to listen.â

âIâm very sorry,(.) I can't stay just now, for I must be back at school by two oâclock. May I call again later in the afternoon?â