By Punctuation, Colons

Written Formula for Ending a Letter (British English)Informal, personal (to close friends and family):With loveBest wishesSemi-formal / informal (emails, notes, business memos):Kind regardsBest regardsRegardsFormal letters:Yours sincerelyUse when you know the addressee by name (Dear John / Dear...

The reason is that as a result, she cannot seem to get well is, in fact, a separate sentence separated by the semi-colon..

Hello,The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language states that the semicolon and colon are stronger than the comma. For example, if the former is placed on the right side of the sentence, the later will be placed on the left side of the sentence. However, why does the following sentence is not...

Hello Friends,I need to know, for what reason, a comma was left out of this title: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I was viewing the plot description on the website IMDB, and could not help to wonder why a comma wasn't placed in the title of the movie after the word Stock. I do not know...

Hi all, How would you interpret the sentence below and would you accept the alternative interpretation from the student? “Students are allowed to bring into the examination ONEA4 piece of paper with up to 39 formulae (no text) written on one side of it, with the equations sequentially...

Hi,As you can perhaps tell, I don't like dashes much.I, and some people but not all, view them as often being lazy punctuation. ie I can't be bothered to word my sentence clearly so I'll just use a dash or two and let the reader figure out what I mean. I wouldn't seriously argue...

Hi Tuongvan, you have continuing problems with spacing around punctuation. You do not need spaces before question marks: Who could have broken it ? -- incorrect (or non-standard) Who could have broken it? -- correct When you use a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon, put a single space...

Hello PCM, The key to your question is "too much." Too much of anything is unnatural. Even ice cream. (Although, happily, I haven't found that point yet when it comes to ice cream.) Colons are really not often used. Your example is a good one. Use them before a list. Until you...

Hi, Here are a few brief additional comments. Dashes - Don't get into the habit of using them a lot, because they can sometimes lead to lazy punctuation and poor sentence stircture (eg Instead of taking the time to figure out how to make my meaning clear, I'll just use a dash here and...

A few examples from Google. My guess is that it means "bring about". This is the first I've ever heard of "ultimate" as a verb....but uses modern punctuation (the colon) to ultimate the caesura of Old English alliterative verse. ... strategy to be applied in order...