Semi-colon and Dash use
Could you please check them to see if they are right?
'Some clever people can skip steps, do it in their head and arrive at the answer faster; but there's always a danger of misinterpreting the question or making careless mistakes, especially if there's a lot of working involved.'
"I think a good approach is to step back and not get too involved in the process—to tackle each section collectedly and rationally without taking every wrong answer as a sign of personal failure. Instead, scrutinize it, analyze it and memorize it in order to avoid making the same mistake again; of course, being detached doesn't mean you can't be proud of yourself after cracking a killer equation. Mindset can often affect one's chances of success; if you clear your head and look at a confounding conundrum with a fresh perspective, it's much easier to see the right way to go about it."
thank you for the help!
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Hi Nowadays, this kind of punctuation is about style as well as correctness With the semi-colon, I would say: it is more than a comma but less than a full-stop. It can be used well to balance two halves of a sentence that give different but related views. This is what you have done in your first example and it is perfect ue A full-stop would have been too strong (especially before "but"); a comma would have been wrong, because you have already used them to make lesser breaks in the sentence You don't mention the colon which, in formal English, is used when the the two halves of a sentence are logically connected - "Take a relaxed approach: don't get too involved" However, the colon is falling out of fashion and is probably being replaced by the dash - which is what you have done in your second example.
- Hi Nowadays, this kind of punctuation is about style as well as correctness With the semi-colon, I would say: it is more than a comma but less than a full-stop.
- It can be used well to balance two halves of a sentence that give different but related views.
- This is what you have done in your first example and it is perfect ue A full-stop would have been too strong (especially before "but"); a comma would have been wrong, because you have already used them to make lesser breaks in the sentence You don't mention the colon which, in formal English, is used when the the two halves of a sentence are logically connected - "Take a relaxed approach: don't get too involved" However, the colon is falling out of fashion and is probably being replaced by the dash - which is what you have done in your second example.
- Again, I think this is now good usage and what I would usually do - "Take a relaxed approach - don't get too involved" Hope this helps, Dave
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Nowadays, this kind of punctuation is about style as well as correctness
With the semi-colon, I would say: it is more than a comma but less than a full-stop. It can be used well to balance two halves of a sentence that give different but related views. This is what you have done in your first example and it is perfect ue
A full-stop would have been too strong (especi
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