Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.

Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.

Well traditional punctuation rules state that two independent clauses need to be separated either by a full stop / exclamation mark, or by a semicolon. Thus the following is quite proper: I hate him so much; he killed my dog. Now if you go back a

Welcome to Englishforums veronikad! Those keyboard symbols which show feelings are called emoticons or smiley. :-D  In maths, ' * ' this is called the times sign.  ;     -     semicolon ( )   -     brackets, round brackets,

I believe that the ghost that has appeared before me truly is my father’s spirit, and that everything it has said is true. The ghost did not flee before Horatio’s “cross,” and it shows Christian forbearance towards my “common” mother. Thus, I

Hope it'll do... Dear Rayne, How are you? I really hope that you and all of your family members are always in the pink of health. We haven't met each other for the past two years ever since you decided to further your study abroad in

I note on usenet that there are two conventions about the positioning of punctuation ? ! : and ; The a majority post "is this correct?" While a significant minority post "is this correct ?" IMO this must be that this is a carry

It seems that question marks and exclamation marks always go where they naturally belong, but full stops and commas are less clear-cut. With brackets, OTOH, they always go where they naturally belong. Is there a rationale for this? Given that

We have waited long but not in vain: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/05/quartercolon.html "The International Grammar Standards Organization has approved the quartercolon for use starting in June of 2004. This is the first new punctuation mark