Could someone please help me with a sentance and what to do with it comma and period wise. I'm pretty confused
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To improve job security, you should strive to get along with co-workers.  Your boss doesn't want to babysit.
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Statement : I'm sure everyone at my workplace would get involved in the sewing competition I have organised!\n\nAnswer: Why not likely men.\n\nYou get it? The 'why' in front of the sentence is just a form of expression. To show that one disagrees.
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Can anyone understand ?this\n\nps - the question mark is where you put it
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It is very difficult to decipher what you are trying to say.  It would be better if you sat sown and wrote (for yourself) what you are attempting to do.  Once you have this completed, get others to read it to see if they can easily understand it.  Until you do this, it is unlikely that you will make much progress.
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A semicolon is used to link two complete, related sentences.\n\nExample:  "I went to the store yesterday; I needed eggs and sugar."  Both parts are complete sentences and could stand on their own, but they are closely related, so you can use the semicolon.\n\nIt can also be used in a list when the items in the list have commas.\n\nExample:  "Please stop at the grocery store to pick up bread, milk, and cheese; the pet store to pick up dog food, a leash, and a chew toy; and the drycleaners to pick up my shirts, pants, and dresses."
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Commas often go into sentences at places where you would pause while speaking them, or if you 'change direction.'\n\nFor example.  "Children who commit violent crimes can face severe consequences (this is going one direction, but now it changes direction) but they often receive mild punishment.  The comma goes between consequences and but.\n\nRead the sentences aloud.  Where you pause, that's where a comma goes.\n\nAlso, commas denote asides, like if you're specifying things...for instance Green Eggs and Ham is a specification of your favorite book.\n\nI could simply put in all the commas you need, but you need to learn these things, and the best way to do it is to do it, so take what I've said and run with it.  Perhaps post it as a further information and give your reasons for having put the commas where you did.\n\nEdit: added: Or just take the answers that the others have given you...*shrug*
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Example: According to Tom Smith who said, "It is a great thing when children cry, 'I want my mommy!'"\n\nSingle quotation marks around the internal quotation. Double about the outer. You may have three together at the end as shown above. \n\nHope that helps.
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I sent you an email today. You got back to me but I dont understand so can you rewrite it for me?\n\n\nWell, actually Im not sure what these sentences mean because it make nonsence at all but I try to figure out, hope this translation could help you!
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It's just badly written.\n\nIf the Europeans like soccer, it should say:\nI don't care AS much about soccer AS Europeans DO.\n\nIf the Europeans don't like soccer, it should say:\nLike Europeans, I don't care that much about soccer. \n\nor at least: I don't care that much about soccer, like Europeans. (with a comma)\n\nAs written, all we know about the Europeans is that the soccer I don't care about is somehow like them.
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Here are a couple of examples.\n\nIf you could go out with anyone in the world; who would you go out with?\n\nHe's going to kick the football but can he make it in?\n\n\nIt seems to me that the only way you can use these two words at the end of a sentence is when there is a comma or a semicolon used in the sentence.\n\nBut there are always exceptions.  \n\nI hope someone can give you further explanation.
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There's two instances I can think of.  First is in a list of more than two items.  For example:  "I'm going out to eat on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday."  The other is when you have two complete sentences joined by "and".  For instance:  "I went to the hardware store, and I returned home."  If the second half is not a complete sentence, then don't use a comma:  "I went to the hardware store and returned home."
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I believe the rule of thumb is to not have more than 3 separate parts to any sentence.\n\nYour sentences make enough sense, but remove the word "has" between "light" and "changes".or change "changes" to "changed to".\n\nThe last sentence has more than 3 parts so I suggest you make 2 sentences out of that group of thoughts, somehow, with "Of course, I understand. Though, it may be hard to explain."\n\nThe next sentence makes sense, but is missing a "d" in the word "crowded".\n\nRetarded is the correct spelling of that word.\n\nLet's say you could light 3 candles with one match, but you have 5 candles. You'd have two too many candles to light with one match.\n\nI used to refuse to do my own English essays, although I knew I could get a much better grade, simply because I didn't like the teacher nit-picking.  Like i just did ... lol\n\nI hope you do much better than I.
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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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It is always going to depend on the sentance, of course.  But in that particular one, I would personally replace the semi colon with a regular comma.  \n\nThen it would read like: "Nothing is truly difficult when done correctly, so you should be completely relaxed."
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I do not understand your sentence.\nIt should be written:\n"I do not understand why men so love soap operas."\nor as a question:\n"Why do men so love soap operas?"
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Technically, I guess there should be a comma- \n\n1. Use commas to separate independent clauses when they are joined by any of these seven coordinating conjunctions: and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet.\n\nThe game was over, but the crowd refused to leave.\nThe student explained her question, yet the instructor still didn't seem to understand.\nYesterday was her brother's birthday, so she took him out to dinner.
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If it's a compount sentance...\n\nExample:\n\nI'll run for help, you get the fire hose!\n\nThe subjects are 'I' and 'you' with an implied 'and' conjunction (but not really).  The compound predicates are 'run' and 'get'...   So... there you go.\n\nThis isn't two sentences, it's a compound sentece.  (I guess the case could be made that it should be two sentences.)  Keep in mind that I was trying to make a compound sentence with two non-conjunctionated (like my made up word?) subjects.  Really you would say soemthing like "Go get help and I'll grab the hose" which WOULD have a conjunction.