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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...

Hello: I am new to the site (was led here by a search engine) and am surprised to see a number of grammatical errors in and around the site in general. I haven't looked everywhere, but below you will find a list of the ones that I noticed right off the bat: The site mistakenly uses, in...

Thank you, Mr. M. In your answer you said "the post-colon portion elaborated the number of books on chaos theory" in regard to the following example sentence: We've had streams of books on chaos theory: no fewer that tweleve since 1988. My one possible foible is the fact that I try read...

Hello, I was looking around on Internet for help on writing a motivation letter for applying to a Master's degree and found this very worthy site. I would be really grateful if someone had time to take a look at mine. I do understand that I am the one to write the letter but I would...

Forgive me, but what do you mean by a “dash.” All the examples here show two hyphens. These are not dashes. There are three types of dashes, namely Hyphens, Em Dashes and En Dashes The hyphen is the shortest of the three and is used most commonly to combine words (compounds such as...

Hi all and happy new year! Could you please have a look at these two descriptions of "Windows XP" (the operating system) some of my students made? It seems like a huge post, but there are, in fact, just some questions at the end. First, I'm copying the task, then, my students' descriptions...

Hi MrP. The corrected proofs were sent. Hope they’ll correct all that is needed. Back to the paper. I have read it like five times so as to note the final doubts. There are quite a lot; hope this is ok with you. 1) “For the Skeptic does not consider that the good relative to each person...

Sorry to be so long, but I have been looking for a good comprehensive internet source on dashes; all the information seems to be in bits and pieces, and some of it is quite contradictory. Here is a good excerpt, however, from the Get it Write website: 'A number of you have written to ask us...

The rules of punctuation are confusing for a number of reasons, primarily: (1) the British rules are different from the American rules; (2) the rules are set by publishers, not by history, and different publishers may choose to set different standards, and (3) the rules change much, much faster...