How best to explain this

Hi

Anyone there?

Thanks,

Tom

Hi

Where are our friends?

Tom

You will get better results if you place all of the required text within your posts, Tom. I for one do not pay close attention to post titles.

Thanks for the advice, MM.

Just to make sure that I understand you correctly--are you advising me against using the quotes?

Tom

Mr. TomIs best an adverb here?

Yes.

CJ

What quotes?

Hi MM

The sentence Tom had a question about was inside a "quote box" in his original post.

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@Tom
It is a little discombobulating when something ends up inside a quote box that hasn't even been posted in the thread yet.

Hi Amy

To be very frank, I'm still unaware of the workings/functions on EnglishForward.com. Do you mean this by quote box? Please let me know.

How best to answer your question.

And do you suggest this is better?

How best to answer your question.

If this is the case, then I won't put my question sentencesin the quote box. It will sa

Yes, it is best if people just type everything they have to say directly into the message box. Quotes are for showing excerpts of other people's posts. Direct typing also saves a jungle of document code (not a problem in this thread).

Actually, I must have overlooked your quote box entirely– I thought the sentence you were referring to might be in the thread title. Yes, 'best' i