Hello, I have a colleague who sends mail as Hi, Diane, I am questioning the use of the secondary comma. I have seen Hi, Diane. and Hi Diane, but not Hi, Diane, What is the correct way to punctuate a name in a Salutation? Thank you.

"Can you please clear put this document in the folde r? "-- The question mark is still required; it remains a question: 'Could you?'. The same holds true for 'Would you', 'Do you mind if', etc.

hi, I have a doubt regarding indirect questions. If i use an indirect question beginning with "Can", should i make use of question mark (?) at the end of the question? For example, consider the following statement :

These all look OK to me, apart from "When did you realise that you are an adult?", which would almost always be better as "When did you realise (that) you were an adult?". There are also some potentially dubious uses of the

Hi, I have a question regarding the use of question marks. In the following text do we infact need question marks? They are indirect questions are they not? ** ** ** I would appreciate it if you could send me more information about to where the

I recently used the following question on a quiz: A gentleman ________ I had never seen before smiled at me. The students were to put the relative pronoun in the first blank and then write whether it was a defining or non-defining relative

Hi, I want to know whether the first letter of a word inside double quotes should be capitalized or not. What if there are 2 words or a phrase?

So, if I were to construct a sentence that began as a question but ended as a sentence, which punctuation mark should I use. For instance: "What did you think of him because I thought he was great." OR "What did you think of him

einde. ocallaghan wrote on 15 Dec 2004: Which of these two sentences is correct? I have friends ... ... and thus needing a question mark to end it. The second is the correct version since it's an indirect question. Yes, but it's a bit

is it ever not to mention but the one if it ever was before it wasn't except otherwisely or perhaps not in English the same?? It's English, Jim, but not as we know it. here an example of same if you would read and help much thanks to yous: