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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 Forum,...

Analyse the formality of the article in SCMP It is indispensable for us to use an appropriate style when writing. There is no doubt that formal style should be practiced for newspaper as objectivity and impersonality are important. South China Morning Post is one of the most prevalent...

Maverick9211 wrote:I can't differeniate between abt nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc. I am not very bad at English. I do understand English very well. I can speak English, but not in fluently. I can't write it very well. Let's make do it this way: You give me some topic and I will...

Hi Matt, Using bullets allows you to do almost anything you want. You don't have to follow conventional use for capital letters, articles, or punctuation. What governs bullets is "style" not "grammar." The thing you really SHOULD do is always be consistent. So you could use it exactly as you...

"NASA SP-7084 Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors" (Mary K. McCaskill Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia) says "The omission of auxiliary verbs is grammatical unless the subjects change number (Rowland 1962)". In your sentence, "winds" and...

Yes, exactly. And what a pleasure it is to be able to discuss this issue with you, MrP. I appreciate your style. Your posts provide delectable food for thought for a healthy discussion. It's truly an immovable feast. Thank you. I more than agree that there's a problem with the tutor's claim, be...

I have got these points from a website: Using However ‘However’ can be used in a number of different ways and each usage requires particular punctuation. using ‘however’ as a conjunctive adverb ‘However’ can be used to join two simple sentences to make a compound sentence. ‘However’ indicates...

Aside from the suggestion that PART functions as a verb and therefore requires an -s to agree in number with the subject EMPEROR or that PART is imperative in form and therefore doesn't require an -s to agree in number with the subject, but would then require punctuation (e.g. EMPEROR, PART FROM...