As a high school English teacher I would use a semi-colon as technically they are all separate sentences except for the "Performance is improving." The other way you could go is to say Mary's teachers said, "She is always

Great question! Some organizations (such as some universities ) require italics. Most newspapers now use quotation marks. Find out which rule is followed at your school.

Hi. Please note that this made-up writing is written to ask questions on paraphrasing. Let us assume it is written by John Doe on his book titled "XXX", on page 9. Junk food is incurring heavy costs (toll?) on today's young

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

I'm looking for others opinions on so-called 'creative writing' courses available. I've always enjoyed writing and now I want to ... for me to part with £300 and bombard me with testimonials, which frankly anyone could make up for

Check out this link: http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htm I am an English teacher and when I went to university I was told to "always put the period after the quotation marks". :-) After viewing this website, I am now

Cece wrote on 29 Jul 2004: John Quincy Adams made the journey from the White House ... fighting to pass the Christian Amendment to the US Constitution. Christian Amendment? What Christian Amendment? JQAdams was a Unitarian. So what? He was a

Christopher Johnson wrote (in a response to Bob Lieblich re "quotation marks" v "inverted commas"): I'm not American, Bob. I'm British, so I don't have ... "them" inverted commas simply because of the font

Christopher Johnson wrote (in a response to Bob Lieblich re "quotation marks" v "inverted commas"): I'm not American, Bob. I'm British, so I don't have to call "them" what you call "them", and

Which is why I often, most often I think, in my British written English use the expression 'quotation marks' ... at the end without having to think about it. And that's the drum. (Aus) And that's the "drum". (Br) Mike. An