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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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punctuation
0 Hi, 02 br
00 Could I be able to use what I call "elaborate" punctuation in emails, like using semicolons and dashes?? Can you correct this? 02 br
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00 I was expecting your email, Jane; I am glad to receive it. I have one question though: did you decide on your wedding date? Are you marrying the dashing fellow you were with at our high shool reunion few weeks ago? If that's him -- you are a lucky girl. He looked so nice and on top of that, he looked so gentlemanly (when and how can we use this "-ly" words??). Please let me know the details. Bye. 0-
00 Could I be able to use what I call "elaborate" punctuation in emails, like using semicolons and dashes?? Can you correct this? 02 br
02 br
00 eg, 02 br
00 I was expecting your email, Jane; I am glad to receive it. I have one question though: did you decide on your wedding date? Are you marrying the dashing fellow you were with at our high shool reunion few weeks ago? If that's him -- you are a lucky girl. He looked so nice and on top of that, he looked so gentlemanly (when and how can we use this "-ly" words??). Please let me know the details. Bye. 0-
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02 br 02 br 01 i 00 I was expecting your email, Jane; I am glad to receive it. I have one question though: did you decide on your wedding date? Are you marrying the dashing fellow you were with at our high s 01 b 00 c 02 b 00 hool reunion 01 b 00 a 02 b 00 few weeks ago?
- 02 br 02 br 01 i 00 I was expecting your email, Jane; I am glad to receive it.
- I have one question though: did you decide on your wedding date?
- Are you marrying the dashing fellow you were with at our high s 01 b 00 c 02 b 00 hool reunion 01 b 00 a 02 b 00 few weeks ago?
- If that's 01 b 00 him, 02 b 00 you are a lucky girl.
- He looked so nice 01 b 00 and, 02 b 00 on top of that, he looked so gentlemanly.
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0 I just spotted a couple of typos (probably), one double space, and a couple of places where I'd use commas. 02 br
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01 i 00 I was expecting your email, Jane; I am glad to receive it. I have one question though: did you decide on your wedding date? Are you marrying the dashing fellow you were with at our high s 01 b 00 c 02 b 00 hool reunion 01 b 00
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01 i 00 I was expecting your email, Jane; I am glad to receive it. I have one question though: did you decide on your wedding date? Are you marrying the dashing fellow you were with at our high s 01 b 00 c 02 b 00 hool reunion 01 b 00
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0 >For dashes I often use two hyphens (--) 02 br
00 I agree with Mr. Wordy on this in terms of e-mail. The (em)-dashes can be properly entered only in more complicated systems/applications. Mind you, in order to save energy, bandwidth and storage, I prefer 01 b 00 plain text e-mail 02 b 00 to the heavy thing. 0-
00 I agree with Mr. Wordy on this in terms of e-mail. The (em)-dashes can be properly entered only in more complicated systems/applications. Mind you, in order to save energy, bandwidth and storage, I prefer 01 b 00 plain text e-mail 02 b 00 to the heavy thing. 0-
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0 Thank you. Why the phrase "a few" is needed before "weeks"? Can we use "few" weeks to note our dissatisfaction with the number of weeks or to denote a negative sense??eg, few pens 02 br
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00 Yes, exactly -- dissatisfaction or a negative sense (fewer than
01 cite 10 Anonymous 12 cite 10 Thank you. Why the phrase "a few" is needed before "weeks"? Can we use "few" weeks to note our dissatisfaction with the number of weeks or to denote a negative sense??eg, few pens 12 br12 br
10 Thank you. 12 blockquote
00 Yes, exactly -- dissatisfaction or a negative sense (fewer than
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