Hi rainy day. Your punctuation is quite odd and you need to capitalize the start of each new sentence. You can also divide the story into paragraphs. Some of the sentences need a lot of work: a shodow of a man appears to him from behind

My friend sent me this link. I wonder what she meant by that? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28900351/ Here's an excerpt to whet your appetite: But while blunders and bloopers have ever exasperated the spelling snobs and grammar

But it is, of course, complete baloney, hooey, nonsense, and ... from "hanbag", but I'm by no means sure of that. He made no claim about your speech, he just said that if your are sounding the "d", it is a spelling

First question: You say "cigarette brand or brands" because the first noun is used as a noun modifier, that is, as an adjective, and adjectives in English are invariable. That's why we say a "five-star hotel" and not *a

I find these rules at http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp very helpful. Rule 1 Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks, even inside single

I'd suggest making a search at Yahoo with: spelling differences british american english (no quotation marks) You will find very many good references, including: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences

Well first, punctuation is not usually included in grammar, and the former can be even slipperier than the latter. In this case (as in many), it is more a matter of what communicates most clearly. I think all of yours are OK; I do have opinions

Hi DK, Welcome to englishforums. "Press on the wound. That will stop the bleeding". The 'that' is not a relative pronoun for a dependent clause. It is a different word (with a different pronounciation); it is the demonstrative pronoun for

Michael West wrote on 01 Jun 2004: They look identical on my newsreader. Tick and double-tick look better to me than those allegedly "smart quotes", however. Some incorrect spellings look better to me than their "correct"

That's a strange way you're spelling "eyes" there! You're not masquerading as RAYMOND O'HARA by any chance? That was a low shot! I realised after I had clicked post that it could be misunderstood. I was trying to provide