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Re: Waht's difference between :Waht's up and Waht's new.

Clive — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:26:38 GMT

Hi,

Waht's difference between :

Waht's up and Waht's new.

If said as a casual greeting, there's no difference. However, with young people today, the former seems much more common.

Check your spelling of 'what', and use question marks.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: Difference between can/could send

Doll — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:47:50 GMT

You can use both of them interchangebly if you want but if you want to sound kind and formal use "could". "Can you send it to me?" may sound rude . Also "can "has the meaning of ability to do someting.. Of course"could" has the same meaning but if you compare the two sentences, no one will think of the ability in the first question. Lastly, "could" is the past form of "can". To sum up, it depends on the context to use them. Both of them are grammatically correct but don't forget to use "?" , question mark, at the end of the second question.

Re: Punctuation after a sequence of questions?

Feebs11 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:15:44 GMT

JaCKo__007 wrote:
Hi everybody! I'm fresh around here.

Was wondering if anyone could help me out with a couple of questions.

The first is: say you have a series of questions one after another. What kind of punctuation would you use in between. Would it be simply: Why did you do this? Where is he? How could you have ever come up with such a thing? How dare you? Are you completely mad? Or would you use commas or semi-colons in between, or maybe something else? You would need the question marks.

The other question I have is:

Say you had a book with a multitude of chapters. And the main ones, of which there are 4, were all written in uppercase. What about the rest then? Would you write the chapters using the capitals rules for titles, or would you use capitals only for the first word of the chapter title? I've noticed books had descrepancies on this subject - maybe there's a difference between AmE and BrE? The way in which Chapter and Part titles are presented in books is generally the decision of the publisher's production and editorial departments. Authors may indicate a preference, but not generally. How you write them in your manuscript is entirely your decision and there is no right or wrong way.

Thanks a bunch!

Re: Help me with this :)

Mister Micawber — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:15:40 GMT

Your problem is with question marks, which you don't seem to use often.

The word order is the difference between the question form (What should I do?) and the statement form (I'm torn about what I should do. Oh, I know what I should do-- I should study harder.) None of the latter end with a question mark.

Re: differences ? thank you

Yankee — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:46:37 GMT

Peaceblinkfriend wrote:
Hi all agian

I would like to know the differences between these pairs of sentences. Which is correct and why ?

1. a) What are the differences between these two ? OK. This suggests that there is (or may be) more than one difference.
    b) What is the difference between these two ? OK. This indicates that there is only or exactly one difference.

2. a) How many people are there? OK
    b) How many people is there? Wrong. You need 'are' because people is plural.

3. a) I don't know if she know who Jim is ? Wrong. You need simple present tense and third person singular with 'she'.
    b) I don't know if she knows who Jim is. OK (but without the question mark because it is not a question).

Re: He looked as if he were/is fifteen or sixteen.

Jackson6612 — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:04:13 GMT

Jackson6612 wrote:

Question 3:

What is difference between the meaning of the following sentences:

1: He was eating like as if there is no tomorrow.

2: He was eating like as if there was no tomorrow.

I used colon above after the sentence What is difference between the meaning of the following sentences which is in fact interrogative sentence, therefore I must have used question mark instead of colon above but colon was also necessary then does that mean in such cases there is no need for question mark?

Please answer the above question.

Re: He looked as if he were/is fifteen or sixteen.

Jackson6612 — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:56:57 GMT

Jackson6612 wrote:

Question 1:

I was told that were is used instead of was after as if but check the following sentence:

He was eating like as if there was no tomorrow.

Question 2:

What is difference between the meaning of the following sentences:

1: He was eating like as if there is no tomorrow.

2: He was eating like as if there was no tomorrow.

Question 3:

What is difference between the meaning of the following sentences:

1: He was eating like as if there is no tomorrow.

2: He was eating like as if there was no tomorrow.

I used colon after the sentence What is difference between the meaning of the following sentences which is interrogative sentence, therefore I must have used question mark instead of colon but colon was also necessary then does that mean in such cases there is no need for question mark?

Please also answer question #2 and #3. Thank you.

Re: He looked as if he were/is fifteen or sixteen.

Jackson6612 — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:23:25 GMT

I was told that were is used instead of was after as if but check the following sentence:

He was eating like as if there was no tomorrow.

What is difference between the meaning of the following sentences:

1: He was eating like as if there is no tomorrow.

2: He was eating like as if there was no tomorrow.

What is difference between the meaning of the following sentences:

1: He was eating like as if there is no tomorrow.

2: He was eating like as if there was no tomorrow.

I used colon after the sentence What is difference between the meaning of the following sentences which is interrogative sentence, therefore I must have used question mark instead of colon but colon was also necessary then does that mean in such cases there is no need for question mark?

Re: Difference between bother doing and bother to do

Timespace Traveller — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:49:31 GMT

Marius Hancu wrote:

Go to:
http://www.yahoo.com
or
http://www.google.com
and make searches say with:
"don't bother to do"
(question marks are important)
and see how many hits are reported for the search

I think you mean "quotation marks"

Re: Difference between bother doing and bother to do

Marius Hancu — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:26:37 GMT

Anonymous wrote:
11. Don't bother to do the dishes. [negation]
[google check] don't bother to do 16,600 / don't bother doing 24,900

could you please tell me about the google check thingy? is it a software or something? how to check ' em like this?

Go to:
http://www.yahoo.com
or
http://www.google.com
and make searches say with:
"don't bother to do"
(question marks are important)
and see how many hits are reported for the search