Hi, MB. Welcome to English Forums. Thanks for joining us! As I understand it, reported speech is usually a sentence within a sentence, and both of them must begin with capital letters. "No!", he said. He said, "No!" I

Why? Is there a reason for this? Why would there be a reason to capitalize it sometimes and not others. Thanks for your response.

If the punctuation logically belongs to the bracketed part (alone) then put it inside the brackets. Otherwise, put it outside the brackets. I can't think of any situation when a trailing comma would be placed inside a closing bracket.

The most glaring problem with your written English, if your post is anything to go by, is that you do not write in proper sentences or use any punctuation. Your post has no sentence divisions and no punctuation anywhere, and many people would give

You don't need to capitalize "screamed" in your example. The same would be true following a question mark. (But,) John screamed, " T ake this thing out of here!" By the way, thanks for joining us, Sarah. Welcome to

Hello, If you have quotation marks which end with an exclamation mark should you then follow on with a capital letter? For example, which of the below is correct? "I'm sick of this place!" Screamed John. OR "I'm sick of

The following sentence is from the Collins Cobuild Dictionary. Here 'begin' and 'end' are used. A sentence is a group of words which , when they are written down, begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop, question

The word "I" is always capitalised. Sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a period (or a question mark or exclamation mark). You still seem to think that these things aren't important, despite having been

The word "I" is always capitalised. Sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a period (or question mark or exclamation mark). Some of the commas I've suggested are not mandatory. I just feel they help make the

I remember hearing about punctuation mark that existed for a short period of time which was a combination of a question mark and an exclamation mark. It was simply a question mark drawn on top of an exclamation mark. I can't find any