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Davkett Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Complicated punctuation

0 What would be the appropriate punctuation for: 02br
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00What can be learned from this answer to the question, “Can you tell me why you changed my grade from a score of 16 to 15?” “Well,…16 just didn’t feel right to me.” 0-
  

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0Awk! " 02br 02br 00What can be learned from the answer to this question? 02br 02br 02br 02br 00ANS: The instructor is into numerology?

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  • " 02br 02br 00What can be learned from the answer to this question?
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0Awk! No matter how you punctuate, it's going to take a slide rule to figure it out; I'd reorganize it, Dave-- 02br
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00"Can you tell me why you changed my grade from a score of 16 to 15?" 02br
00"Well…16 just didn’t feel right to me." 02br
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00What can be learned from the answer to this question? 02br
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0Your advice on reorganizing occurred to me. Except, in its context, the statement is third in a sequence of statements that start with the phrase, "What can be learned from..." 02br
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00When you have nothing better to do, or if you can find your slide rule, would you want to take another crack at it, without reorganizing it? 02br
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00Of course, t
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0I don't really want to try this, but how about: 02br
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00"What can be learned from... 02br
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00'Well…16 just didn’t feel right to me' (the answer to the question, 'Can you tell me why you changed my grade from a score of 16 to 15?')?" 02br
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00-- or do I have to keep it in the same word order you had
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0 Valiant effort. Didn't want to force you into it. 02br
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00Your ?')?" at the end is just the kind of thing that blows me out of the water. 02br
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00Did you, however, further complicate the punctuation by quoting my sentence, because your solution looks as complicated as the answer to punctuating the original sentence without changing
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0 Re: What can be learned from this answer to the question, “Can you tell me why you changed my grade from a score of 16 to 15?” “Well,…16 just didn’t feel right to me.” 02br
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00What can be learned from the answer(to the question “Can you tell me why you changed my grade from a score of 16 to 15?” ), “Well,…16 just didn’t feel right to me.” ? 0-
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0Oops! Yes I did, Dave. Website habit, I guess. Please remove it at your leisure. And say-- you never showed us how 01i00you02i00 would do it! 0-
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0 How about: 02br
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00What can be learned from hearing the question, “Can you tell me why you changed my grade from a score of 16 to 15?” answered with: “Well,…16 just didn’t feel right to me.”? 02br
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00(Admittedly, though the change in word order creates a slightly different kind of emphasis, the change does not harm my intent. I just
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0Yes, I think your approach is much clearer, Dave. How about grammatically compacting a bit more, then?-- 02br
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00What can be learned from the question, "Can you tell me why you changed my grade from a score of 16 to 15?", and (or 'together with') its response, "Well…16 just didn’t feel right to me."? 02br
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00(I don't think that midfi
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0 question/inquisitive is " ? " 0-
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0Sorry, Brian-- what is your question, precisely? 0-

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