Here is your corrected sentences. The strikethrough words incorrect and the color bar words are my replacements. 1 This is as far as I've ever gotten in the game. <Correct> 2 Everthing that happens from now on forth depends on you. 3

American printing convention places the period and the comma always within the quotation marks and colons and semicolons always outside of them.

Hello, Can I use a semicolon in the following case? StartFragment > "As for the unsatisfactory points ; safety, programs, and management of the community facilities for children appeared to be unsatisfactory." Or

The original is fine. your father is smart and your mother is smart, therefore you are smart. This is a comma splice. To remove it, a semicolon or the coordinating conjuction so is needed. Thank you, Greek!

The semicolon is used in a series that has been introduced by a colon. Otherwise, it is used in place of a period to join two sentences which are so close in meaning that a period would set them apart.

His eyes were a blazing blue, his teeth a radiant white, and both contrasted dramatically against his bronzed face. It would seem that a semicolon should follow "blue" because the first clause is independent, but it is also the first of

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

Jingtian, The New York Times style book says: periods and commas, in American usage, always go inside the closing quotation marks, regardless of grammatical logic. Another source gives this example: ...two complete thoughts joined by

Hi there, guys: Thank you for your posts, but, as GG said, this thread began a long time ago. I have a far greater understanding of grammar now, and after reading your recent answer, I totally agree. Adverbials have scope to

Hi. Wouldn't you need a punctuation such as a long dash (or, short dashes or a semicolon) between 'too' and 'not' instead of the comma? Or, wouldn't you want to end the sentence with 'too," and start a new