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The following sentence is from the Collins Cobuild Dictionary. Here 'begin' and 'end' are used. A sentence is a group of words which , when they are written down, begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop, question
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1 A dog's brain is disproportionately small (compared) to the size of head. Among mammals, a dog's brain is disproportionately small for his head. 2 She knows him so well as to be able to write a message in his place and people would
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Do you mean brackets or do you mean parentheses ()? If parentheses, then you use end punctuation (a period or a question mark) within the parentheses only the whole sentence is enclosed. Otherwise, not. For brackets, normally, you use punctuation
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I think it would be better expressed as two separate sentences: the first with a period at the end, the second with a question mark.
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Sentence 1 is good either way, but you should be consistent in either using numbers or in spelling them out. Normally, numbers ten or below are spelled out and numbers above ten are left in numeric form (11, 21, 33, etc). Sentence 2, crossed is
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what are the disadvantages and advantagaes of living in a megaopolis Capitalize the first word of every sentence. Watch your spelling. Don't forget that you need a question mark at the end of a question. This should be: What are the
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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
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Commas, Punctuation, Colons, Semicolons, Quotation Marks, Question Marks, Writing, Usages, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States, American, Languages, Styles
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Why are most questions asked in invented order rather than normal order?
We distinguish the mood of the sentence grammatically by the structure of the sentence. For interrogative mood (asking questions), the helping verb is inverted with the
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Oh, I see. In AmE the comma goes inside, but in BrE it goes outside because it is not part of the thing quoted. This same rule is, however, followed for exlamation and question marks in AmE.
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John said, "Everybody must act
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Hi,
for number one , How would you say it?
1 I'd write it as The movie's been running for 1h33minutes . an/one hour and 33 minutes .
and what about 4. How many minutes of the movie do you have left to watch? Is that alright???
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