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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

correct or not

That must be Mary , she always rings at this time . Is this sentence correct ?
  

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It is mispunctuated, which is hard to do when there are 4 correct possibilities: That must be Mary—she always rings at this time. That must be Mary. She always rings at this time.

  • It is mispunctuated, which is hard to do when there are 4 correct possibilities: That must be Mary—she always rings at this time.
  • That must be Mary.
  • She always rings at this time.
  • That must be Mary; she always rings at this time .
  • That must be Mary: she always rings at this time.
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It is mispunctuated, which is hard to do when there are 4 correct possibilities:

That must be Mary—she always rings at this time.
That must be Mary. She always rings at this time.
That must be Mary; she always rings at this time .
That must be Mary: she always rings at this time.
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The semicolon and the colon mean the same thing. I never knew that.
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londonderryThe semicolon and the colon mean the same thing.
No, they do not, but sometimes they can serve in a similar situation.

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