By Exclamation marks, Gerunds

Maple wrote: Now I think I can feel free to use the expression “now you can say that again" when I agree with the speaker. Thanks for your clarification. The expression is You can say that again. You stress slightly that in speach. You can say 'that again You can add now, but you can add...

Sorry for the delay -- I wanted to check first with a real editor to get an authoritative answer. He used a gerund in his last sentence (whatever that is!). In the above sentence, the full stop is definitely needed after the right parenthesis. The parenthetical information is part of the...

Hello, Laurence. This isn't really my "field"; I'm not the best person to make comments about style. But... - In the first sentence, I'd say that "He used a gerund in his last sentence (whatever that is!)." The comment in parentheses starts with a lower case word, it appears to be part of the...