By Paragraphs, Semicolons

To avoid embarrassment, is there some convenient way to tell when an issue has been resolved, in case one fails to notice the date? P.S. Anon: You misspelled "louse" in your last paragraph.

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...

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is a (truly is a hollow adjective here) superb reality show that first aired on December 3, 2003. Each 60 minute episode features a team of designers, contractors and several hundred workers who must race against time: (you could subsititute the colon with a...

Ever since its birth, this dog has been with Larry. Now, the dog was malodorous, old, crippled and blind, but Larry was always with it. (The adj. stinky is too colloquial to be employed in written English.) Larry's roommate, John, wanted to get rid of the dog because he was bothered by the...

Hi guys, I'm working on my punctuation and am reading a lot of books. I come across loads of examples where the punctuation does not make sense according to a punctuation book I have been reading. I wonder if I could just ask some questions about the paragraph below, which is from a Thomas...

Here are a few suggestions. First, change increased to increase. The company's increase by over 200 percent. "Long- or short-term trend" might work better than your "only a sudden case." Then you have a series of adverb clauses. I'd separate them with semicolons. It will be easier to read...

Hi!You use both the British and the American spelling. Be consequent: use either the British one or the American one. I've used the British spelling for my corrections as that is what you used in the first paragraphs Good luck! Judging from your essay, I would say that your chances to be admitted...

To me, the rules regarding punctuation around quotation marks are not always logical. To 'remember' them, I extracted the following from Webster's Third New International Dictionary: 13.1 Direct quotations: "When I am dead," said one of the keenest minds, "lay a sword on my coffin." 13.2 In...

This letter is well written, and your English is good. But I did spot a few mistakes. And many of your sentences are too long, you need to use more commas and fullstops. In the second paragraph: "...my future plans of seeking a carrier in an international organization...." The word is...

And how about this, from the second paragraph of the 'Eats Shoots etc' excerpt?-- Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under a powerful magnifying glass; you name it. Shouldn't those...