football is a popular sport played almost in all Asain and European countries. There is no direct agent here but it's still a passive structure. That sentence is not in the passive voice. Football is a popular sport played in almost all As

Hello, friends. Please, which is the correct way and why? Doubt #1 "color of the car" x "car color" x "car's color" "leg of the cat" x "cat leg" x "cat's leg" "pizza of yesterday" x "yesterday pizza" x "yesterday's pizza" I've heard that Genitive

The reason is that many Spanish questions can have the same form as a statement and inversion of subject and verb is quite common in statements. Also subject pronouns are not usually expressed. In speech the difference between questions and

Focus Magazine, September 04: Correspondence is taking longer to read because of poorly punctuated email, according to optometrists at the University of Bradford. They discovered that missing fullstops and capital letters are behind the

There's a US/UK split on common practice here. And it's more a typesetting question than an actual English usage question, as I see it. What about handwritesetting? :-) Maybe some would compromise by writing the fullstop or comma directly

Well, both or neither, really, because "rules" governing punctuation aren't really "rules" in the sense that rules govening nouns, verbs and adjectives are rules. Punctuation "rules" vary considerably, often from publisher to publisher, or from

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And AHD had this to say about it: NOUN: A punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation. Also called exclamation mark. I don't know why I say it. Maybe it's a regional thing. MW: Main Entry: exclamation point Function: noun Date: 1824 a

I've never seen that usage. Exclamation marks, yes. Points, no. Is this something that's been around that I've just not noticed before? You know, I found myself writing that once before, and at the time I changed it to exclamation

Does the rule extend to paranthesis? It should, because it ... of paranthesis is to interrupt the flow of the sentence. The rules about parentheses and ending punctuation are not quite the same as either system for quotation marks and ending