As it is, you are using the phrase 'spread your risk' as a substantive (i.e., a noun), which is acceptable. You may mark it with quotation marks if you wish: The golden rule here is 'spread your risk'. The addition of 'to'

Commas almost always go inside quotation marks. In other news, apostrophes are used for possessive nouns. "Commas" is correct. "Comma's" is not, unless you're referring to something that belongs to that comma.

Thank you. So, I think you are saying the length is the determining factor, not whether is a clause or non-clause. Right? I think Clive said something like if the content is more than 2 or 3 words (I don't know exactly that means in practical

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

Although there might possibly be a couple of exceptions to this "rule" , I can't think of any at the moment. I suppose the "reason" for this might be the simple fact that the noun in such a hyphenated adjective is no longer

Hi, I wonder what I need to conceptualize better what is involved in the use of a hyphento denote one aggregate noun. possible instruction in a language game: Let's play a "wh" game with wh-words . At first, I think I can see why the

. I think the word "House Card" is capitalized, meaning it has a special meaning or treated as a proper noun.-- Yes, it is the name of a type of card; evidently (from the 'a') there are several of these cards in the game, and

Hi, I am not too sure why there has to be the article "a" in front of the word "House Card" in quotation marks. The instructor will give each person in the room a "House Card." This is supposed to be part of

1. If the quoted material is an exact quote, then keep the capital letter to start it. However, in your example, the ? belongs inside the quotation marks. The ? goes with the question. 2. No, this should not be capitalized. It's a common

Hi, 1. From a booklet by Scholastic Library Publishing for educators that advertise their products/material?, they were advertising Scholastic Classroom Magazines and among them was this: DynaMath Magazine On the picture of its cover, it had