By Semicolons, Question marks

Hi Tuongvan, you have continuing problems with spacing around punctuation. You do not need spaces before question marks: Who could have broken it ? -- incorrect (or non-standard) Who could have broken it? -- correct When you use a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon, put a single space...

Hi, What is the best way to list complete questions in a sentence? Questions that should be read with the upward inflection? For example: The Document's inconsistent application and its selective inclusion of concerns raise troublesome questions: how might people determine which ideas...

What is the best way to list complete questions in a sentence? Questions that should be read with the upward inflection? For example:The Document's inconsistent application and its selective inclusion of concerns raise troublesome questions: how might people determine which ideas should...

http://evotalk.net/blog/?p=108 Symbol Description & Ampersand (And) *　 Asterisk @ At sign, at \　 Backslash Close bracket ( Open parenthesis )　 Close parenthesis : Colon , Comma $ Dollar sign – Double dash … Ellipsis...

"Place commas and periods inside, not outside, quotation marks. Place all other punctuation outside quotation marks unless it was contained in the original source. Follow this practice whether or not the comma is part of the original quotation. The general rule is that commas and periods should...

To me, the rules regarding punctuation around quotation marks are not always logical. To 'remember' them, I extracted the following from Webster's Third New International Dictionary: 13.1 Direct quotations: "When I am dead," said one of the keenest minds, "lay a sword on my coffin." 13.2 In...

And how about this, from the second paragraph of the 'Eats Shoots etc' excerpt?-- Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under a powerful magnifying glass; you name it. Shouldn't those...

In the following three sentences are they punctuated correctly? Thanks for any help you can give me. 1. After he began the meeting he said " I am not staying." (Should there be a comma after said? Should the period be inside of the quotation mark?) 2. Have you ever read the article...

Hi, If my child was marked down because she used a capital letter for words in a spelling test, I’d be angry with the teacher. When I went to school, my spelling exercises tested for spelling not style. However, if your child is a high school student and if the teacher was marking hard, then...