can someone tell me if this is the right punctuation?
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yes, the punctuation is correct, however the sentence is very informal, so if it is for an essay I'd change it to make it more formal.
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Very nice; you must have picked up on the hidden clue.\n\nFrankly, it all depends.  I personally am not very found of grammatical rules, as they seem to be inherently limiting.  As far as I am concerned, you can throw the majority of those rules out the window, as long as you can express yourself clearly and be easily understood.   Case in point: Linguists and English professors do NOT usually make great writers, do they?   In principle, of course, one can always make a strong formal English punctuation argument in favor of your choice "b".  But to me "a" looks much "prettier".   So the question is: Should we keep shoving food into our mouths, mindlessly chewing, and promptly swallowing till our stomachs are full, or should we try to eat less, but eat with our eyes and palates too?   I suppose, it all depends on the circumstances and your point of view.   For instance, if you end up in a hospital with a sever case of malnutrition and dehydration, they “ain’t” “gonna” care much about how you are gonna eat or drink, as long as they end up pumping enough liquids and nutrients into you to save your life.   ... The punctuation waters start getting even murkier as more and more people begin to impose their own rules and restrictions on-line.   Ironically-enough (notice I said Ironically-enough and NOT anomalously-enough LOL) take your own example in this here on-line Y!A milieu, for instance.    The Y!A software will automatically add a question mark (i.e. a "?") to the end of every statement posted, no matter what you do, and be it really a question or NOT!  (And still, they dare to complain that some of those questions aren’t exactly questions)!  LOL    Hence, in a Y!A environment at least, both your choices would be forced into a punctually incorrect stratosphere (for "a" would become "lovelorn"??, and "b" would be transformed into "lovelorn?"?) and the only correct choice would appear to be “the initially incorrect one”, namely just “lovelorn”.  … Now, go figure!   LOL     … Yes my friend, even the oracle should strive for anomalism, at times.  :-)
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Punctuation as well....\n\nA group of men & women were given these words and asked to punctuate them.\n\n"Woman without her man is usless"\n\nThe men said:\n"Woman, without her man, is useless."\n\nThe women said:\n"Woman, without her, man is useless."
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pretty much perfect, i would change only the following:\n\nI am [removed also.  no need for it, since you have not expressed any other concerns previous to this sentence.] concerned for the safety of anyone who may be in the building at other times. There are potential dangers in a building that is under construction, [add comma] especially if the construction crew doesn’t know you are in the building.\n\nIn order to be sure the construction crew is aware of your presence [you used the phrase "in the bulding" to finish the previous paragraph.  avoid repetition.], I am asking you to please [added please.  it's both cordial and professional to say please when requesting something from employees.]sign in with the security office during non-business [added hyphen] hours. In addition, the construction crew has requested that {added "that."  grammatical.] you use the front entrance, as opposed to the east or west entrances.\n\n\nhope this helps.
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Okay...serious grammar....\n\nFirst, you cannot put a comma after town. Second, the rules have changed in regards to a series of items. You must put a comma before the conjunction ("and"). (When I went to school, it was against the rules. Now, it is against the rules NOT to use it.)\n\nThe grammar problem you have is called parallelism. When you are listing items, they must have the same structure. (For example, you wouldn't say, "I like to go to the beach, to the mountains, and shopping at the mall." You would need to change "shopping at the mall" to match the other structures. "I like to go to the beach, to the mountains, and to the mall.")\n\nThe above sentence is an easy example. Let's look at your three items in your list: \n\n-low crime rates\n-a good school district\n-is in good standing with the city\n\nIs it easier to see the error that way? If not, take the first part of the sentence, "It is...has" and attach it to each of the listed items. (For example, "It is a secluded part of town that has low crime rates.)  I'm sure you'll be able to see the error now.\n\nI better structure would be, "It is a secluded part of town that has low crime rates, a good school district, and an excellent reputation." (I couldn't come up with another word for "in good standing.")\n\nI hope this helps. Parallelism is a common error, but not always addressed.
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It is correct according to MS Word spelling and grammar check.  Use it...  Tools >Spelling and Grammar from the standard MS Word tool bar.  \n\nThey both will pass the test grammatically, but the first makes most sense.
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It is grammatically correct if you mean to see that the pattern can be been seen around the clock, but just barely, and that hasn't changed for a while.\n\notherwise it's very awkward and not grammatical.  Depending on what you mean, it should be"\n\nPatterns can still be seen around the clock\nPatterns can just be seen around the clock\nPatterns can be seen around the clock
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It is not a sentence...\n\nBeneath the noted universal concerns there lies a distinctive world view.\n\n Or better yet use a semi colon after the word preceeding but ..then replacing it with however and a comma...like this \n\n" ; however, beneath these universal concerns there lies a distinctive worldview."
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Yours is one of the few questions on the list that is grammatically correct, with the words spelled correctly (except that English should have a capital E at the beginning) and with correct punctuation. From those indications, I think you are already on the track toward using good English. For further improvement in speaking and writing English, talking daily with people who speak it well and writing assignments for a teacher's review would help a lot. You could do both in a night school class.
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either is acceptable..\n\nthough, if you would be using the sentence in theme papers.. or any formal writing..\n\nyou should use the second..\n\nthis is for the reason that when a number is present in a sentence..\n\nit is only appropriate that you affix the word "for"..\n\nexample...\n\nwe were trekking for four days (it wouldn't seem formal if you use "we were trekking four days")
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I can't believe all these people saying "Mark and I"  !!!  "Mark and me" is correct!\n\nSimply take "Mark" out of the sentence and see if it sounds right.\n\n"Could you please copy I on these communications?"  It doesn't work!\n\nAnd the first one is correct.  The second sentence uses the reflexive pronoun "myself," which doesn't make any sense.  Could you please copy myself on these communications?  You would not ask somebody to do it, if you were going to do it yourself.
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B. You are stating two separate ideas here, so a comma is appropriate. The colon is used when you want to define the phrase, but here you have separate phrases, so you don't modify or define here. D. is also incorrect because you are defining the action of the sea, and not describing it. It would be the same as saying "I, went to the bus station."
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last lines very correct
659763
Ive wondered that myself, and realized that its in other phrases too like "im going to take a break" so its probably grammatical.  *shrug* who knows for sure
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I can contribute the name of that particular punctuation mark.  It is called an ellipsis.  You can find out more about it at the web site below.
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the paragraph seemed fine to me except your spelling errors. i would use spell check
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Did Saddam Hussein do anything wrong against the US? Why is the US happy about his execution?\n\nThere are many ways this sentence could have been worded. \n\nIn the first sentence, "done" is the incorrect word.  "Did Saddam Hussein do anything wrong...?"\n\nIn the second sentence, "on" would be better replaced with "about". The word "is" should come between "then" and "why".