I’m writing a tweet that starts with:     Put on a tie today. “Work,” you ask?   But I’m not sure where the punctuation should be. Is the above correct? Or, is it something like:     Put on a tie today. “Work?” you ask.   Or something else?
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If a sentence contains a complete question, but ends with a statement, should it be punctuated with a question mark?  Example:      Could she go to the store, he wondered
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I have been around on Twitter for awhile and I regularly find people using "Please to retweet this" or "Please to help me", etc. Is this proper English? I do not think prefixing the infinitive form with a 'to' is necessary here at all.
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I feel uncomfortable saying sentences like the following:    "I've a car" instead of "I have a car" "They've a great time" instead of "They have a great time" "He's a pen" instead of "He has a pen" etc   I ask this because I read this sort of thing in a book.  Are they correct? And what is the rule? Can you use such forms in a formal setting?
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For formal articles, should a displayed equation be followed by a punctuation to conform to the language grammar ?  For example:  The most well-known physics formula is      \[E=mc^2.\] %should I put a period here?  And if you expand      \[(x+y)^2,\] % should I put a comma here?   you will ...
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I would like to write "In "[article name]," [author] states such and such." However, in this particular instance, [article name] ends in a question mark. How should I punctuate this?   "In "Can Pigs Fly," Bacon states..." "In "Can Pigs Fly?" Bacon states..." "In "Can Pigs Fly?," Bacon states..."   Or something else?  Thank you!
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Out of the two sentences, which one is correct?          You should have also named it the Daily prophet.      You should also have named it the Daily prophet.       My guess is it's the first one.
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Why are there some people saying     Me trying to...   Should it be      "I try to..."    Is this grammatically correct? How should I then finish this?
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I came across this sentence today in a wait screen for a twitter client:  Did you know that this wait is actually Twitter's fault, not ours?  Is &quot;Did&quot; correct usage in this case? I didn't know it earlier, but I became aware of it as I read it. Hence this seems logically correct. But a  Do you know that this wait is actually Twitter's fault…?&quot;  sounds more natural in this case. What tense would be correct in this case?
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The American convention in quotations is (typically) to place punctuation inside quoted text. But I always run into situations where the punctuation of the quote interferes with the punctuation of the sentence. How would you punctuate this (American, non technical)?     When my friends ask, "What do you want for your birthday?", I never know how to respond.   It seems odd to place the last comma outside the quote simply because of the question mark. Is that the preferred (i.e. most often accepted) standard?
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Why do British speakers omit the article in constructions like "go to hospital" or "go on holiday"? Pretty much all American speakers would rephrase those as "go to the hospital" and "go on a holiday", I think. Is there any good reason, or forgotten sense behind those words that might explain why the articles are ommitted?  Are there other common constructions other than those two that the British use that drop the article?  EDIT: I just realized per Kosmonaut's comment that Americans do much the same thing with a few nouns, so this isn't all that special.   Do grammaticists designate nouns that can have their article dropped with anything, i.e. do they have anything in common?
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Is a comma needed in the following phrases?     30-day, money-back guarantee   90-day, no-risk trial   If so, why? If not, why not?  I've seen them written both ways &mdash; with and without the comma &mdash; but certainly one way has to be more correct than the other.
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The context is about work progress. Planned work is 100%. Someone implemented only 45% of the work.      45% of the work was implemented.   The sentence begins with the number. Please write whether we capitalize the first letter after the number? Is it normal in English if a sentence begins with a number?
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Is using a comma then an "and" or an "or" after it proper punctuation? Example:         I fell over, and hurt my knee.   Should I go, or not?
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Is this the correct use of an apostrophe when showing a name and relationship?     When was your father, Robert's, wedding?   Thanks!
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Are there cases where a period is placed inside parentheses? In which cases the period (or a comma) should be placed inside the parentheses?
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I wimped out in answering , dropping the commas and going to parentheses in this sentence, because I was not sure of the placement/correctness of commas in this construction. Now I'd like to get clear on how to use commas in this sentence (without reformulating it...no moving "poems", for example), and why. I'm not even sure that conjunction reduction is what causes the awkwardness here...  Wimp version:     I like Lord Byron's (and also enjoy a number of Percy Shelley's) poems.   Now I'm asking, if you use the comma, do you use both commas? It looks mighty strange with "poems" out there by itself:     I like Lord Byron's, and also enjoy a number of Percy Shelley's, poems.   ...Or is the comma even required? I don't like this, but is it correct?     I like Lord Byron's and also enjoy a number of Percy Shelley's poems.
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I have seen many sentences like this:     "Capitalism, Socialism, and Anarchism"   and this:     "She was happy, and cheerful"   Do we have to use a comma before "and", or is it incorrect?  If it is not, then why?