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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.
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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clive
1 yr 4 days ago
Capital Letters, Numbers, Colons, Commas, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Question Marks, Exclamation Marks, Hyphens, Semicolons
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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.
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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emchapps
1 yr 4 days ago
Capital Letters, Dates, Numbers, Colons, Commas, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Question Marks, Exclamation Marks, Hyphens, Semicolons
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Dear Anonymous, I'm sorry to report, but you are incorrect here. Hyphens are not the correct punctuation to use to set off words in the middle of a sentence. Only an em dash should be used in this case, with no space in between.
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I wonder what is the guidelines for deciding whether to use hyphens or quotation marks for cases like these. ... his way was a my-life-for-yours way. (Could one have written it using quotation markslike this: ... his way was a "my life for
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Thank you. I continued to research the issue and came across similar results. From what I think I understand the "4" and "GB" represent a compound modifier for "RAM" and generally require the hyphen. As for why I have
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I have noticed for years many variations of punctuation when you combine numbers and capacity abbreviations. I read a lot of technical stuff and I do not and I can not find (searching the web) a reference to the correct usage. Which is correct?
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I 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
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Hi,
I think a guru or serveral gurus have expressed their dislike of the use of dashes in many cases. I see these types of sentences where a person would resort to the use of a dash eventhough without it will not make a difference or resort to
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I find your sentence very satisfactory. It may be Jane Austenish but there is no law against such language even today. Why should everybody speak and write in exactly the same way in English? People don't do that in many other languages. I see
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"Their disdain rarely failed to evoke in him a delayed sense of self-irony not at all fatal in nature."
First of all, is that sentence at all grammatically correct? Did I miss any hyphens? Punctuation?
What about the style, does it
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