By Hyphens, Punctuation

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 marrying the dashing fellow you were with at our...

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 other types of punctuation will do the job as good...

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 no mistakes in punctuation or hyphens but I know...

"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 sound too literary or archaic? How would you...

Belly wrote:And for Hoa Thai, what are the differences between using - and , ?Hi Belly,You had a problem with a comma splice, which is a sentence in which two independent clauses are joined by a comma with no conjunction.Often at the end of a well-formed sentence, we provide a period (full stop)...

I understand now . We don't use " comp day / compensatory day " in case a public holiday falls on any of our regular day off , but must use " observe Christmas or the like on the working day " , right ?. A few notes on other things. Don't leave a space before the punctuation mark. It goes right...

Hi, I am currently reading a novel, The Glass Palace – by Amitav Gosh, who is praised by highly respected sources as a finest prose and seductive writer. Nonetheless, I found fragmented sentences in his book that trouble me even with a realization of the intentional special...

in this case I'm talking trancript, so it has to be as the person said it.Well the person did not use any punctuation at all when they said it, Tom, so I see no reason to flout custom. The hyphen is usual there in careful writing; otherwise, it reads as 'right populations and left-handed...

1. When you want to set off a sub-section of your sentence to embed another sentence or phrase, you can use commas, parentheses or dashes. For example: I'll meet you at the Starbucks -- the new one one Elm Street -- after class, okay? If you are embedding an entire sentence -- and I've seen...

Mary is an old-fashioned girl.'-perfect May I know the meaning of 'hyphen'? hyphen is a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text Best regards.