http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aHyphens+tag%3aDatesSearch results for 'tag:Hyphens tag:Dates' matching tags 'Hyphens' and 'Dates'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/PunctuationChecked/hbbgl/post.htmThu, 20 Nov 2008 17:45:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:589962emchappsHi 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 This lesson focuses mainly on the period question mark exclamation mark comma semicolon colon dash apostrophe hyphen quotation marks italics underlining parantheses brackets slashes capital letters numbers a Her favourite writers Joyce Caol Oates and James Dickey are both contemporary b Your faults are an uncontrollable temper inexperience and indifference to your work should there be a colon after the word are c Since we had driven the car 87 000 kilometres we decided to turn it in d If siege is spelled with an ie why is seize spelled with an ei e What we need said Mr Blevin the union spokesman is a good day s pay for a good day s work f Many people perhaps most peopledo not know from what material their clothing is made g The government was faced with a difficult task it had to persuade a sceptical frustrated people that the energy shortage was real h Her camera her new dress and her books all of which she left in her carwere stolen i I have just received an unexpected letter from the director of the Bureau of Internal Revenue should director be capitalized j The lawn a little ragged needs to be cut the hedge shrubs and ivy need to be trimmed the flowers need to be watered and not least of all the gardener needs to be paid should the semicolon after watered be a comma since the next word is and k The late Will Rogers favourite saying was I ve never met a man I didn t like should there be a comma after was l Judy Garland is best remembered for her role in the 1930 s film The Wizard of Oz m Does anyone remember who said absolute power corrupts absolutely according to my lesson quotation marks arent supposed to be used on commonly known quotes so I didnt use them n I make it a point to read the New York Times every day and The New Yorker every week only rarely however do I get around to Time or Newsweek o You can t do that they shouted from the balcony You can t You can t p The president s wife s activities are always reported in the press so are his children s not sure if this dash is right q Should one judge candidates from the speeches they make from the printed matter they distribute or from the ideas they generate r To be a millionaire by the time you are thirty you will have to take large risks be lucky and have creative ideas s Enjoy the view we called out as they left for the mountain top We had wisely decided to wait for them in a meadow half way up http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuestionsHyphenationReportedSpeech/gnbkk/post.htmSat, 13 Sep 2008 02:44:21 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:565464anonymousHi 1 Mr M wrote this sentence as a response in a thread named Please correct the sentence Why no hyphen is needed for the phrase call forwarding as I can tell from his sentence One reason I can think of is that they are so often used in pairs to use them separately would be very unusual Please send some call forwarding scenarios and call samples2 I got this sentence from Google Book search and wonder why no back shift in necessary as it is done here My assumption is that she is a fool is good as long as it still applies to her and should go back is OK since I think the modal should can accommodate both the present and past time frames and it is a free country is OK if it still applies to the country but she can go where she pleases with the modal can He told her she is a fool and should go back but she said it is a free country and she can go where she pleases Why not He told her she is a fool and should go back but she said it is a free country and she could go where she pleases One mroe question Can the wrord where be whereever http://www.englishforums.com/English/MemosShowClintonTurmoil/gkxvp/post.htmWed, 13 Aug 2008 15:05:10 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:554385jackson6612Memos show Clinton turmoilQuestion I would have written Clinton s turmoil Why didn t the author use apostrophe BY CRAIG GORDON AND TOM BRUNE lt email addresses removed by mod gt August 13 2008Question Why is semicolon used instead of comma to separate the email addresses above WASHINGTON In a fresh postmortem an examination of a plan or event that failed done to discover why it failed autopsy on Hillary Rodham Clinton s presidential bid attempt to obtain or do something newly published staff memos a short official note to another person in the same company or organization and e mails reveal a campaign hobbled to hobble something or someone means to make it more difficult for them to be successful or to achieve what they want by internal rivalries a situation in which two or more people teams or companies are competing for something faulty planning bloated more than needed excessive spending and perhaps most important Clinton s own failure to make the hard decisions Clinton offered herself to voters as a hyper competent extra competent executive ready to be president from day one But atop on top of something her own campaign she was a hesitant leader who allowed bitter infighting when members of the same group or organization argue or compete with each other in an unfriendly way to fester If an argument or bad feeling festers it continues so that feelings of hate or dissatisfaction increase among staffers over whether to go negative against Barack Obama according to the Atlantic magazine The most bare knuckled characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules lines of attack came from Clinton s chief strategist Mark Penn who urged Clinton to highlight Obama s lack of American roots due to his upbringing in Indonesia and Hawaii saying he could only win if he faced Attila the Hun 406 453 AD a king of the Huns an ancient people from Asia who attacked and took control of large parts of the Roman Empire He is famous for being violent and cruel But Clinton didn t embrace Penn s flag waving the expression of strong national feelings especially when these feelings seem too extreme approach way of doing something which campaign aides someone whose job is to help someone who has an important job especially a politician insist was never seriously considered Question Clinton didn t embrace Penn s approach because she did not consider it seriously Therefore what campaign aides were saying is redundant The article also says that Clinton at times grew frustrated and short tempered including on the morning after her stunning third place finish in Iowa in January when aides on a call were silent Clinton s camp dismissed the story as inside the Beltway gossip and old news And former campaign aides sharply disputed the notion of Clinton as an indecisive leader with one campaign veteran saying Nobody seems to want to remember the fact that we had so many successes and come from behind victories in this campaign and they are due in large part to Senator Clinton s leadership Question What does the line including on the morning when aides on a call were silent mean If she finished third place then why would the author describe it as stunning What does call mean in when aides on a call were silent Question What does the phrase inside the Beltway gossip mean Question What does the line Nobody seems to want to remember to Senator Clinton s leadership mean But the e mails and memos offer vivid very clear and detailed new details about what had long been reported that Clinton s headquarters was beset to make someone experience serious problems or dangers by caustic bitter internal battles involving Penn and former President Bill Clinton who wanted to forcefully attack Obama and others who wanted the New York senator to take a more positive tack method way of doing something At one point it was Bill Clinton and not Hillary who approved the famed 3 a m phone call ad Question what had long been reported is passive past perfect tense Am I right Question I think headquarters should take plural verb What do you say Question Why are the hyphens used in and not Hillary I believe commas would do instead Adding to the turmoil was the fact that the campaign had little strategy and no money left to seriously compete in the post Super Tuesday contests having the form having with a past participle can be used to introduce a clause in which you mention an action which had already happened before another action began burned through 106 million before Iowa That allowed Obama to win 12 straight contests and effectively wrap up to finish a job meeting etc the nomination Question What does burned through mean In the end the campaign s strategy came to reflect some of the internal turmoil as Clinton veered changed course from attacking Obama to emphasizing her personal side Question What does her personal side mean Penn did offer some advice in March 2007 that proved on the mark Clinton s path to victory lay with women and lower and working class voters Question What does proved on the mark mean I couldn t find it in the dictionary But by the time Clinton finally settled on that strategy to win the later primaries it was too late Excerpts from the memos All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared towards showing his background is diverse multicultural and putting that in a new light It also exposes a very strong weakness for him his roots to basic American values and culture are at best even when considered in the most positive way limited I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values Strategist Mark Penn from a March 19 2007 memo to Hillary Rodham Clinton advising her to attack Barack Obama for his lack of American roots Question What does centre mean in the above context The right knows Obama is unelectable except perhaps against Attila the Hun and a third party would come in then anyway Penn from the same memo Question Does right refer to right wing in the above context This has been a very instructive call talking to myself Clinton before angrily hanging up on a staff conference call the day after coming in third in Iowa in January She complained of being outmaneuvered to gain an advantage over someone by using cleverer or more skilful plans or methods in Iowa and being painted as the establishment candidate according to the Atlantic but was met with near silence Question I would have written This has been talking to me Why did she use myself Question What is a conference call Is it some kind of telephone call which address many poeple Question Why is in used in coming in third STOP IT I have help my tongue for weeks After this morning s WP story no longer This makes me sick This circular firing squad that is occurring is unattractive unprofessional unconscionable and unacceptable It must stop Robert Barnett a Clinton lawyer and Washington insider from a March 6 2008 e mail to campaign staff after a Washington Post story detailed the infighting Question What does I have help my tongue for weeks mean Question What does This circular firing squad mean Question Were the comments in the last paragraph made by Robert Barnett http://www.englishforums.com/English/GurnCorrectionsNeededEmailMessage/gwcnr/post.htm#541229Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:50:43 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:541229mr wordyA few suggestions Thank you very much for your email I have completed the requested work The following task had been carried during my checks During my checks I have 1 Removed all I assume unlicensed software 2 Installed McAfee Antivirus 3 Run antivirus on the PC and found 5 viruses and removed them Run the antivirus program Five viruses were found which I have removed This forest of crossings out makes it look like your original had more serious problems than it actually did I changed it around in order to make the numbered points follow on grammatically from the preceding sentence There are now no viruses on the PC The antivirus software automatically updates when the PC switch on starts up In addition this there is virus guard installed V sign which monitors for viruses 1 Checking Google for confirmation of how V sign should properly be spelled caps hyphen etc I don t find any references to this virus guard product Instead I see lots of references to a virus called V Sign I suppose you re sure this is what it s called 2 The difference in function between the antivirus software and the virus guard software does not come across very clearly If the recipient is not bothered about technical details then I suppose this may not matter If it finds one it informs the user and asking prompts to remove or clean The PC is now password protected I have given the password to Ms Anjum http://www.englishforums.com/English/Dates/ggnlv/post.htm#534552Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:14:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:534552mr wordyStrictly speaking to indicate date ranges or numerical ranges you should use a en dash not a hyphen If you use a dash then you should not use to as well As far as from is concerned I personally don t like the style from January 2 March 1 If think that if you use from then you should also use to i e from January 2 to March 1 Whether you write e g January 2 or January 2nd is a matter of style There s no right or wrong answer I prefer the January 2 style as it seems less fussy Strictly speaking if you abbreviate month names then you should use a dot e g Jan not Jan but lots of people omit it and it s not something that bothers me one way or the other However in formal writing I would write out the month name in full Whichever way you choose you should be consistent You have three different styles mixed up here unabbreviated name March abbreviated name with dot Aug and abbreviated name without dot Aug Your last two sentences sound strange to me It sounds as if you want the notice taken down over the weekend and then put up again which seems kind of pointless It would be more natural to just say for two weeks starting August 11 It should be bulletin not bulleton http://www.englishforums.com/English/Punctuation/gzcxl/post.htm#526518Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:58:51 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:526518mr wordyI just spotted a couple of typos probably one double space and a couple of places where I d use commas I was expecting your email Jane I am glad to receive it I have one question though did you decide on your wedding date Are you marrying the dashing fellow you were with at our high school reunion a few weeks ago If that s him you are a lucky girl He looked so nice and on top of that he looked so gentlemanly Please let me know the details Bye Proper punctuation in emails is to be commended and you should punctuate them just as you would any other piece of text For dashes I often use two hyphens as you have Not only are proper dashes a pain to enter but I m never entirely confident that they will be rendered correctly in whatever system the recipient is using Many ly words are adverbs but gentlemanly is an adjective The way you ve used it is fine just as he looked so handsome is fine What you can t say is something like he looked at me gentlemanly intended to mean in the manner of a gentleman because this sentence needs an adverb as in he looked at me cautiously http://www.englishforums.com/English/MoreGrammarDoubts/gvzqc/post.htmTue, 03 Jun 2008 15:36:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:522497anonymous 1 However after being told she would not be allowed to present the speech herself that instead it would be read at the assembly by a male student she turned down the offer Her future was in public speaking and she would not be denied Should it be instead Can that be deleted Please advise 2 Although she was determined not to marry Lucy had not yet met Cincinnati hardware merchant Henry B Blackwell brother of Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell the first women medical practitioners in the country Seven years younger than she Blackwell earnestly pursued Lucy for two years begging for her hand in marriage Should it be Seven years younger than her Please check usage 3 Although she as many of the other women in the movement stitched shirts for Union soldiers being domestic was not her calling and during the period she helped found the Woman s National Loyal League advocating full emancipation and enfranchisement for African Americans Please check comma usage in the above sentence 4 Slowly she moved away from the more extreme positions and the persons supporting them particularly the free love advocacy of presidential candidate to be Victoria Woodhull and those who opposed all but federal suffrage mandates including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony Do we need hyphen in presidential candidate to be Please clarify 5 She died at her home of cancer but refused to make her death the end of the firsts on her list Her final wish was to be first person cremated in New England Should it be was to be the first person Please check 6 Lack of paid employment was not an issue for Addams was a skilled fundraiser Is the sentence construction ok Please check 7 Employing a changing and adaptable approach to organization Addams established the first public playground in the city started a post office and a savings bank initiated the first juvenile court and offered bathing facilities for those who had none Do we need serial comma before and offered bathing facilities Please clarify 8 Unfortunately her career was short lived for she was summoned home to help care for her ailing mother Do we need hyphen in short lived Please clarify http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToUseFollowUpWord/gdmxc/post.htm#519573Tue, 27 May 2008 12:57:43 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:519573grammar geekHi Nhi83 I have to follow up with a lot of people and your note is a perfect use My only suggest has to do with the repetition of person you would have needed a before the different person but instead try someone else A lot of my e mails go Hi name of person I m just following up on the draft I sent you Have you had a chance to reiew it If not is there someone else who can I need to have sign off by date if we re going to get these printed in time for the event And I ll get something like this back pretty often Hey Barb Thanks for following up I forgot to let you know that it looks good to go from my end Follow up with they hyphen is the noun I believe Thanks for the follow up If you re following up no hyphen http://www.englishforums.com/English/HyphenQuestion/gbpgq/post.htm#510492Tue, 06 May 2008 17:13:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:510492yoong liat quote user Anonymous I often need to use the phrase the paper mailed on X date set a three month period of time for response Should a hyphen be placed between the words three and month Any advice would be greatly appreciated quote Hi Anon The paper mailed on X date set a three month period of time for response of time should be omitted http://www.englishforums.com/English/HyphenQuestion/gbnhx/post.htm#509929Mon, 05 May 2008 16:13:48 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:509929yoong liatHi Anon the paper mailed on X date set a three month period of time for response Yes you should insert a hyphen