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Re: What's one of the last pictures you took?

Cool Breeze — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:44:21 GMT

Hitchhiker assures me that the uploading problem has been fixed. It was something to do with the processing of characters like commas and spaces and so forth in the names of the pictures. I'll upload the four pictures of boats that didn't make it last time.

Daily departures to Stockholm. 14 decks, lots of bars and restaurants, two night clubs, saunas, swimming pool. Cabins for 2,500 people.

One of the boats that take people to the Suomenlinna fortress.

This one is coming from Tallinn, Estonia. The fastest boats cover the distance in 90 minutes.

Another boat that cruises to Stockholm.

Cheers, CB

Re: Optional commas.

Akavall — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:34:57 GMT

This helps!

One more question. Is the situation with "of course" similar to that of "however"?

When it is important to emphasize that I have a different opinion or a much stronger opinion than somebody then

I, of course, think that using correct grammar is important.

should be used. Otherwise

Of course, I think that using correct grammar is important.

should be used. Is this right?

Thanks again!

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

comma before 'when'?

Futurehuman11 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:50:17 GMT

This lifestyle eventually caught up with the young man with a bright future, and he was convicted of first-degree manslaughter when he killed his girlfriend in a car crash.

Should I use a comma before the bolded 'when'? 'When' isn't essential to the sentence, but I also heard that you should not use a comma when the subordinating conjuction of the dependent clause is not at the beginning of the sentence. HELP!

Re: Capitilaztion

Philip — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:36:17 GMT

Tumbling wrote:

Will someone please check me.

Red the small letters that should be capitalized in the following sentences.

1. The Fairfax hotel operates on the american plan.
2. Sarah Whiting, an astronomer at wellesley, helped plan the Whitin observatory.
3. This spring my aunt Mary saw several elk near Douglas lake.
4. Our high school plans to perform Hansberrys A raisin in the sun.
5. Because I was sick for two weeks, I fell behind in literature, algebra, and world history I.

I, as in AmEng, would add to Feebs:

3) Aunt -- unless you separate 'aunt' from 'Mary' with commas

4) 'In' (perhaps an insignificant preposition) should be capitalized

5) Standard is to capitalize all classes if they are listed as the title of the class. "I really like to study literature, history and algebra" ~ "my favorite classes are Literature, History and Algebra". As far as I know, this is standard here in the colonies.

Re: Please please please help me once more. I've less than a day left.

Feebs11 — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:14:44 GMT

bought a small, rounded, rectangular device [you will need commas as shown]

making ~~(a?)~~ hardware or ~~(a?)~~ software for phone, satellite or other communicatio(s?) networks. omit article and "communication networks" is correct.

system(s?) designing system designing

and ~~(improving/~~to improve) my ability Actually, if you look carefully, you have been saying "to ....." - to achieve/to keep pace/to improve

Looks good!

Re: Lots of ands in a list.

Yoong Liat — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:52:08 GMT

If there were no children, the world and our lives both would be colourless (and ) meaningless and soulless.
Does it sound good to put the parenthesized 'and' in the sentence above? No. A comma is required.

If there were no children, the world and our lives both would be colourless, meaningless and soulless.

Clive was faster in replying.

Re: Lots of ands in a list.

Clive — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:17:56 GMT

Hi,

If there were no children, the world and our lives both would be colourless (and ) meaningless and soulless.

Generally speaking, I agree with a comma after each item but not before the final 'and'. Some people will also put a comma before 'and'. Just be consistent in how you do it.

If you include the 'and' in the above example, it strongly emphasises each item and its separateness from the others. It's an uncommon literary device, so I advise you not to do that.

There are also lists where 'and' is a part of a particular item. eg I like pizza, fish and chips, hamburgers and ice-cream. These need to be punctuated carefully.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: Punctuation (Period or Comma or ...?)

Clive — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:05:54 GMT

Hi,

They are the beginning of life or, as Wordsworth put it, âthe child is the father of the manâ(.) the origin and the future.

Definitely don't put a period there. If you must leave the sentence as written, put a comma.

However, the quotation sits awkwardly in the middle of the sentence. In addition, the sentence has three 'parts' and there is duality in parts two and three but not in part one. I suggest something like -

They are the beginning and the later stage (the end?) of life, or the origin and the future. As Wordsworth put it, âthe child is the father of the manâ.

I thought Wordsworth actually wrote "The child is father to the man"?

Best wishes, Clive

Lots of ands in a list.

Hungry — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:31:07 GMT

If there were no children, the world and our lives both would be colourless (and ) meaningless and soulless.

Does it sound good to put the parenthesized 'and' in the sentence above?

Once my English teacher told me when there is a long list of words, we don't write 'and' after each and every word in the list. It seems odd. 'And' functions as a wooden plank over a brook, which helps one to cross the brook without any jerk. If there are more than two entities in a list, we put a comma (,) after each entity, but the one before the last one, since it is followed by 'and'.
For example, The lady in black looks very gorgeous, stunning, fascinating, elegant and attractive.

But I have often noticed 'and' written more than once. Could someone also tell me what connotations does a list, having more than one 'and', have?

Thanks in anticipation.