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Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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emchapps
1 yr 5 days ago
Capital Letters, Dates, Numbers, Colons, Commas, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Question Marks, Exclamation Marks, Hyphens, Semicolons
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. Hello HogDog-- and welcome to EF. No, they are mostly wrong. Only the last one is correct. The first one should be a colon and the others commas, like this: Emergency supplies are a necessity. You will want to bring : signaling devices,
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Hello all I was just wondering if I'm using the semicolon correctly in the following sentence: Emergency supplies are a necessity. You will want to bring; signaling devices, something reflective such as a small mirror or compact disk, a
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I should have edited the post - they are clearly related, but the first three seemed unrelated to each other. I broke them into each line so I could comment one by one. I think the probable date I noted for his visit is one month from
the day of
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Thank you so much. How would you divide this type of writing (diary or reflection piece?) into paragraphs, especially when the content of a possible paragraph is two or thre sentences long? You asked: I am starting to work on my two-month project
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Memos show Clinton turmoil Question: I would have written ''Clinton's turmoil''. Why didn't the author use apostrophe? BY CRAIG GORDON AND TOM BRUNE | <email addresses removed by mod.> August 13, 2008 Question: Why
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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jackson6612
1 yr 104 days ago
Regards, Articles, Plurals, Dates, Tenses, Clauses, Negatives, Past Perfect, Colons, Expressions, Commas, Paragraphs, Apostrophes, Hyphens, Semicolons
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Hi, Could I be able to use what I call "elaborate" punctuation in emails, like using semicolons and dashes?? Can you correct this? eg, I was expecting your email, Jane; I am glad to receive it. I have one question though: did you decide
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I have a good piece of news to report: - a piece of good news?
Our Center just had a new computer room and bathroom
installed. - Center -
why capitalization?
came from the general contributions of our
Mothers of Our Neighborhood
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I doubt that it is more nearly acceptable that we reproduce the exact same thread with a new date on it.
The word that I mispelled was "clause." If you reread the post, I misspelled several words. I was copying from the Gregg reference manual
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To avoid embarrassment, is there some convenient way to tell when an issue has been resolved, in case one fails to notice the date?
P.S. Anon: You misspelled "louse" in your last paragraph.
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