By Punctuation, Exclamation marks

These are all OK. (You don't need a space before the exclamation mark after "book", and you don't want "book!.", but I guess these are just typos/formatting ambiguities.) All these (not just the first two) could have an exclamation mark at the end of the second...

Oh dear(!) I can't find my book(!) / Oh dear, I can't find my book(!) -- These are the most likely; the exclamation "Oh dear" is a single unit. "(!)" means that you can either use an exclamation mark or a full stop, depending on how exclamatory you want it to...

qtDear Mark, I had the same question and found this online. Hope it helps! Lynn 1. Punctuation with parentheses. As in the model sentence above, periods and other end punctuation go outside the close of a parenthesis. No punctuation mark can precede a parenthesis, but a comma can follow...

Hi Ray, Thanks for your help, however, I was wondering if there should be a comma when you have the title of a play (or book, or movie, etc.) with punctuation (like a question mark of exclamation mark) as part of the actual title. If I wanted to say - "Oklahoma!" the classic musical...

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...

Brunces wrote:Doubt #2Sometimes, I see periods which contain direct speech within quotes. For example:The father arrived home and said, "Honey, I'm here!" and then dropped his briefcase on the couch.1) Is the writing this period correct? Shouldn't I use colon before the direct speech? I never do...

Hello, friends.Please, which is the correct way and why? Doubt #1"color of the car" x "car color" x "car's color""leg of the cat" x "cat leg" x "cat's leg""pizza of yesterday" x "yesterday pizza" x "yesterday's pizza"I've heard that Genitive Case is used only with nouns which are "living...

Mister Micawber wrote: 1) What can we call the package that helicopters throw on the land when there is a catastrophe happens? -- (Emergency) Aid packages? Air drops? 2) About punctuation, should we punctuate before or after the : She told me," I want to go out. " or She told me," I want to...

1) What can we call the package that helicopters throw on the land when there is a catastrophe happens? -- (Emergency) Aid packages? Air drops? 2) About punctuation, should we punctuate before or after the : She told me," I want to go out. " or She told me," I want to go out".) -- Most...

Hi all! I'm having a bit of trouble with the punctuation on the following: The book is directed to a higher purpose, a law which states, "Don't think!". a.) The exclamation mark has to be within the quotations, I just don't know whether or not to finish the sentence there or with a...