By Commas, Dates

Re: Proofreading here please!

This is very long. I've highlighted anything that raised questions. Start Your Financial Planning Now! Your Financial Future Depends On It! Financial planning is easier and funny more enjoyable?? when you make your own plan. It doesn’t matter your age never is No matter what your...

Re: How to write a date

Hi GGI am about as British as you are Finnish. However, I do know that there's much more variety in writing the date in BrE than in AmE. Many Brits do use th in running text the way you indicate, but not all. Some put the day before the month, some put it after the month the way Americans...

content that comes after a comma

Hi, I think this might be very broad of a topic to introduce but hope you will be able to help me. What puzzles me is the structure of the content of a word or phrase that comes after a comma which seems to give details about something before it. John has two big hands with five fingers on...

Re: Date wrap?

It's a style issue, but you should try to avoid breaking the date at the end of the line if you can. I forget the ascii code for a hard space, but you can put one before the numeral in the datea and between the comma and the year, and it will treat the entire block as one word and not break...

Re: Yes, the security deposit is refundable within six years...

Hi, Q1 - Yes, that seems correct. Q2 - Whether a comma is needed before a conjunction depends on the particular sentence, especially on the length and complexity. Strictly speaking, start a new sentence for both of your original examples. Q3 - 1: Yes, the security deposit is refundable...

Re: Yes, the security deposit is refundable within six years...

Are all of the above sentence correct now?

Re: Yes, the security deposit is refundable within six years...

Hi, Which of the following sentence is correct? 1: Yes, the security deposit is refundable within six years otherwise it shall be forfeited. 2: Yes, the security deposit is refundable within six years after that it will be forfeited. 3: Yes, the security deposit is refundable within six...

Re: Need help to CORRECT SENTENCE STYLE, WORD CHOICE, GRAMMATICAL SENTENCE and PUNCTUATION ERRORS

Hi,CORRECT THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES THAT HAVE SENTENCE STYLE, WORD CHOICE, GRAMMATICAL SENTENCE and PUNCTUATION ERRORS, AND TELL WHAT RULE OF WRITING YOU ARE ADDRESSING. (The first one is done for you.) 1. Police dogs are used for finding lost children, tracking criminals, and the detection of...

Re: Alongside

Yankee wrote: Liveinjapan wrote:Six candidates are sitting on the same side of a long rectangle table, facing the audience.Hi LiJ The change of wording in Sentence 3 would probably lead me to use the preposition 'on' rather than 'at'. In addition, I would prefer a comma after the word 'table'...

Re: Alongside

Liveinjapan wrote:Six candidates are sitting on the same side of a long rectangle table, facing the audience.Hi LiJThe change of wording in Sentence 3 would probably lead me to use the preposition 'on' rather than 'at'. In addition, I would prefer a comma after the word 'table' in Sentence 3. ...