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"... when you have both finished" sounds awkward, is it a common sentential constuct? Yes, it's a normal construct And your sentence "What were the questions like?" looks good but can I also say "How were the questions like?"? No, but you could say "How were the questions?' or 'How did you...

In British English, we generally use lower case after a colon, but American speakers often use upper case. Yes, if what follows the colon is a complete sentence, as it is in this case. It's not WRONG to leave it lower case, because it is, as so many things are, a matter of style. I would...

Maya2 wrote: It raises the question: what is a quality film. It raises the question: What is a quality film. It raises the question: (W)hat is a quality film. It raises the question: what is a quality film?It raises the question: What is a quality film?In British English, we generally use...

The glottal stop is used in American English, yes, but not in the same places, necessarily, as for British English. It's used (for some speakers) just before the final unreleased "t" when "t" is final after a vowel. "That's it!" (The final "t" is rendered by a glottal stop and/or an...

I'm only getting question marks for those symbols, but if you are referring to the R-colored vowel sounds in "bird" and "winner", the difference should be explained by a speaker of British English, where there is a difference. As an American, I can only tell you that these vowels are the...

I learned the American rules for punctuation: periods and commas always go inside the quotation marks; colons and semi-colons always go outside; and question marks and exclamation points go where they actually make sense. I agree it's not logical, and sometimes I want to rebel and put that period...

Well, both or neither, really, because "rules" governing punctuation aren't really "rules" in the sense that rules govening nouns, verbs and adjectives are rules. Punctuation "rules" vary considerably, often from publisher to publisher, or from newspaper to newspaper. I can tell you that...