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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.englishforums.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Search results for 'user:emchapps'</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=user%3aemchapps&amp;o=DateDescending</link><description>Search results for 'user:emchapps'</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3616.28671)</generator><item><title>Punctuation: needs to be checked over</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PunctuationCheckedOver/hbbgl/post.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:45:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:589962</guid><dc:creator>emchapps</dc:creator><description>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&amp;#39;m taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I&amp;#39;d like to be sure. (This lesson focuses mainly on the period, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, semicolon, colon, dash, apostrophe, hyphen, quotation marks, italics/underlining, parantheses, brackets, slashes, capital letters, numbers)   a) Her favourite writers, Joyce Caol Oates and James Dickey, are both contemporary.   b) Your faults are an uncontrollable temper, inexperience, and indifference to your   work. (should there be a colon after the word are?)  c) Since we had driven the car 87,000 kilometres,...</description></item><item><title>Paragraph to be checked for punctuation errors.</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ParagraphCheckedPunctuationErrors/hrjpb/post.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:47:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:587504</guid><dc:creator>emchapps</dc:creator><description>Hey everyone, I&amp;#39;m taking a correspondence course, and I would appreciate anyone who will proofread this assignment for me and let me know if I did anything wrong. Thanks! :)  Assignment: Add the necessary punctuation in the following paragraphs, and change any punctuation that is used incorrectly.   all too often it seems that the canadian national pastime is complaining about the weather our hot summers are criticized because theyre too hot while our springs are too wet our autumns too cool and our winters too long. If the climate is so bad here why does anyone live north of the US border. perhaps the problem is not that canadians dont like living in canada but rather love to complain.  The most popular sports teams in canada were...</description></item></channel></rss>