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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. (This lesson focuses mainly on the period,...

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. (This lesson focuses mainly on the period,...

Dear native speakers (this time, especially, U.S., Canada, and U.K.), I have long been confronting the problem related to the usage of commas and periods in quotation marks. I know that periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks in U.S. style; but they are not in British style. ...

The aquatics centre will have a total capacity of 22,500, out of which 17,500 seats will be for the diving and pool competition(,) and the other 5,000 will be in the water polo section of the centre. Notes: Capitals - only capitalise the first letter of a sentence of names of things (proper...

You have problems with spacing around punctuation, and you have spurious double spaces in a number of places. I have corrected these below. The other changes that I made to the date formats are not because what you had was wrong, but just to make them all consistent. Dear colleagues , ...

I think the two number 2's should be correct instead according to one of the functions of commas stated below:- The comma is often used to separate a dependent clause from the independent clause if the dependent clause comes first. After I brushed the cat, I lint-rollered my clothes....

I can understand what thing is baffling you. In the First Part you would be thinking about the use of that comma. I don't think that the second sentence is incorrect. Sometimes what choice of words/punctuation an author uses in certain expressions is completely at his discretion. So both...

Hi, I had a few questions, or rather need clarification on a few things. “You can't do that”, they shouted from the balcony, “you can't, you can't.” ( Why is the comma outside the quote and not inside it?) It's a matter of the style you choose to follow. If you search the...

Hi Barbara I agree with most of the changes made by you. I would like confirmation about a couple of points. “Come here , my little man , ” said the policeman , kindly . “Why are you crying ?” ( Is a comma required or optional after 'policeman'? ) “That’s the...

You did a good job on this. I would make only a couple changes, and a few are open to interpretation. 1) If he said it kindly, and didn't shout, then use a comma, not an exclamation mark, which would indicate that he's shouting. 2) Don't make "That's the same as...