Formerly,in letters where for example 'Lieber Hans' is followed by a comma, the first letter of the first sentence was always a lower case letter. Is this still so?
201023
If you begin with a pronoun ("Ich") then definitely not. Otherwise, yes.\n\nAlso... as of August 1998, the second person singular and plural ("du" and "ihr") and their various forms ("dich", "dir" and "euch") are no longer written with an initial capital letter in letters.
446418
IMO you could get rid of both of the commas in that sentence (i.e. the one after "cave" and the one before "but".  You don't need them.
28666
It actually does not need any commas.\nYou could put one after "spot," but that depends on whether the emphasis in the sentence is on the parking spot or the Mercedes.
417698
According to "The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology (Wilson, 1988): \n\n"~I~ pron. 1137 i; later I; developed from the unstressed form of Old English (about 725) ic singular pronoun of the first person (nominative case). Modern and Middle English I developed from earlier i in the stressed position. I came to be written with a capital letter thereby making it a distinct word and avoiding misreading handwritten manuscripts. In the northern and midland dialects of England the capitalized form I appeared about 1250."\nhttp://www.alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwhyisi.html\n\nThe one-letter form "O" is treated the same way (unlike "oh"), probably for the same reason.
659804
however, not all native English speakers write or speak grammatically correct.\n\ni spot an error that could be overlooked by many in your sentence. "........., the first thing they usually mention is.."\n\nwould be better if "...........the first thing they usually mention has.."
197814
When the typewriter was first invented, the keys WERE in order, but the little hammers that typed the letters often got stuck. The most commonly used letters were next to each other, so the hammers often came together and caused the mechanism to stick.\nBy arranging the letters in what is known as the QWERTY style (look at the top row of letters), it slowed down the typist and let the mechanism keep up!\nNow that it's all electronic, it doesn't matter so much, except that typists are familiar with it.\nIf it really bugs you, get a Dvorak keyboard or one of the specialist ones.
53272
If your using Microsoft Word, when you put a lower case "C" inside parenthesis (c), it automatically turns into a copywrite c.
484941
The large beginning letter is called an "Initial", and was first found in "Illuminated" manuscripts in Medieval times using the Insular calligraphy style.  Found at the beginning of a major section of text.\n\nThere are several types - zoomorphic, historical, foliate, etc.\n\nSearch for "Initial calligraphy" or other combinations.\n\nHere's a website with a few definitions:\n\nhttp://www.newyorkcarver.com/scriptoria.htm\n\nFor examples go to:\nhttp://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm\n\nand put "initial" in search box
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1. This might be an example of a phenomenon called "pro-drop" in conversational English.  It's used in many of the world's languages, such as Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, conversational German, and many others.\n\nHowever, in your case, since you're apparently a non-native speaker, I suspect that you're just hearing something different from what they're actually saying.  (Native speakers would never ask many of these questions.)\n\n2. I believe that "No, thanks" is the version that most grammarians will say is correct.  I suppose they want there to be a comma because "no" is considered an adverb, and there are usually commas between adverbs and the sentences they modify, as in "However, I bought the jeans after all."\n\n3. These endings are productive and therefore probably change over time.  If you want to choose the "right" one, you'll have to check the dictionary, I guess.\n\n4. I usually say "ten after" or "ten ten".\n\n5. These are completely different.  To fill in means to put entries into a form with spaces, as in "Please fill in this application."  To fulfill means that you complete someone or meet needs.  For example, "I fulfilled my obligation to that company."\n\n6. Actually the word is "awaken", not "waken", and they mean basically the same thing.  However "wake up" is the form that most English speakers will use in informal situations.
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I believe 'Okay' is preferred in writing, even though 'OK' has become a popular abbriviation (especially since it doesn't require the use o two upper-case letters side-by-side, which is awkward in prose).  It's the same principle that allows 'thru' to appear on drive-thru signs but never in proper English texts.
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It has to do with the we humans process language in general and the printed word specifically.  You notice that all of the letters are there, and the beginning and ending letters are correct.  For longer words, they often have anchors at the syllable breaks.  We have difficulty when letters are missing or extra letters are added, changing the size of the words, and also when words are just typed in in a stand alone mode, and we lose context.
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None because:\n\n1.) There are robots all around making our lives easier.\n(took out comma)\n\n2.) There are robots all around, which make our lives easier.\n(added comma)\n*Note: This seems to be incorrect, so I will say that the answer MAY be #2, depending on how you were taught English.\n\n3.) There are robots all around; they make our lives easier.\n(changed comma into semicolon)
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In proper grammer, the word "of" isn't capitalized unless it's at the beginning of a title. So it's not often used in abbreviations, probably because the point get across with or without its presence.
470743
This is fine, down to the last sentence of the first paragraph. You shouldn't start the sentence with 'especially'.  A comma after 'construction', & then,  'especially if the crew doesn't know you are in the building.'\nThe words non-business would be better hyphenated.
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Though I am a lawyer, I cannot understand your question, as it appears to have been written in the e e cummings style of no punctuation.  Sorry.
659491
except for the first letter in each word the rest of the letters form a palindrome...\nlike for mom \nb  anana\nd resser\ng rammar\np otato\nr evive\nu neven\nv oodoo
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Sure language do.. In my Arabic language There is no case senstive in the same way as in English/Frensh..\nWe don't have a Captial and Small letters but We have accent senstive..\nex: we have 'أ' (we speak it "alf") with "hmza" on it which correspond A in English. when "alf" is in a word it have 3 way to say it, this is depend on the "hmza", it may be in top of the letter or under the letter or no "hmza" at all\nHope i discribed it clearly..