"Hi!" is a sentence by itself. Dear Jane, Hi! I bet you thought you'd never hear from me again. I've been very busy since the move but I hate to lose touch with my friends, so I thought I'd write you. The correct way to

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

Hi, Is it acceptable to use exclamation marks after colon such as: I was seeing something I never thought I'd see: my wife with another man! Is it okay to use exclamation mark after using colon? Alfa

Thanks Einde for showing interest in my post. The context is as follows: When C. Zeta-Jones and M. Douglas married ... OK!. Now the couple are suing Hello!. What does "PUNCTUATION-HAPPY" mean in the above context? Thanks for any

Patrick infrared: Lately I've noticed "LOL" in some of my ... the Internet, so we'd better include it to look genuine." They probably think it's HTML code for the spammer's friend, the exclamation mark. LOL!

Patrick infrared: Or have you "lost track" still lol? Just admit your ... go on go on...! It's not that painful, really lol! Lately I've noticed "LOL" in some of my junk mail, in places where it made no sense at all.

I only use "shriek" for mainframe computer related purposes. Me too - not that I've had any "mainframe purposes" for the last fifteen years or so. For mathematical purposes, I say "bang" (as does maths teacher

Children playing hide-and-seek, when they find a buddy in hiding, call out things like, "I(‘ve) found you!" (past or present ... on the whole conundrum, especially with regard to the difference in nuance between "I(‘ve) found

(without bothering to include the attribution to "lee", who is the OP) I'm trying to help out a friend who's completed some ... is that part simply idiomatic...I'm stabbing in the dark here. To deal with this first, different