Thanks, everyone. According to The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style: With other punctuation Put commas and periods inside closing quotation marks; put colons and semicolons outside. Other punctuation, such as exclamation

Hi, Can you please check the grammatics of the following sentences? Keep all students uninformed of opi ni ons that don't match yours? Or just keep your own kids in the dark about of others' positions? In terms of

Hi, The reason you have not yet had a reply maybe that your post is very long. I'm glad that you have now started sentences with a capirtal. But oyu still have other problems with capitals and punctuation in some of these examples.

The word "I" is always capitalised. Sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a period (or question mark or exclamation mark). Some of the commas I've suggested are not mandatory. I just feel they help make the

No. 1 M: Where's the stack of folders that was/were on my desk? -- by itself, "on my desk" implies that the folders are on the desk now (and not in the cabinet). In conversation, many people would say "were" rather

Hi, if someone is writing a note and after a sentence or word puts the letters (sic) - what does that mean? 'Sic' is a Latin word that means 'thus'. It's used in a situation where someone is being quoted and they used

I was sure it was supposed to be one because it really doesn't look right with two, I've got an exam to get entry into a course and I've always thought English was one of my strong points, guess I'm just being a bit anxious!

I was wondering, did you take it? is more everyday English. And yes, you use the question mark. I was wondering if you took it. is also everyday English, but this is the one you use in more formal writing. CJ

Thanks again ...and so both are equally correct in spoken and written English? And what about the question mark in the first sentence? Tom

Do you mean this as a continuous text, or is it a series of individual sentences that you want checked? If the former then it seems jerky and the connection between eating healthily and saving money is not made very clear. Yes, I will most