Billy. Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 It's one thing to use correct abbreviation and punctuation but telling porkies is always bad. He also changed from talking in the first person to the third. A horrible grammatical error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 How do you know he was talking about himself? from the description I assumed he wasn't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 How do you know he was talking about himself? from the description I assumed he wasn't It's clear it's a compliment aimed at him. I think he should have inserted quotation marks around his statement, or it just looks like he's continuing his discussion and unintentionally changing the mode of narration. If I were to include et cetera in the abbreviated form, I'd double dot that bad boy. "Ben has great eyes, good looks and is really funny etc.". One stop to show abbreviation and the other as it's the end of the sentence. Quoted above, in case you couldn't picture what I was talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 As Churchill once said, "this is the kind of English up with which I cannot put!" Proving there are often exceptions to any rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeonstool Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 So why are speech quotes i.e. "hello!" used where the contained words or abbreviations are NOT actually spoken ? I use in formal documents, either, or, combinations of the bold, italic, or underscore text to emphasize where necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSPUK Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 You will always get trouble with punctuation these days as the government closed down all the grammer schools years ago. please insert your own .,;:' I got no idea -i never made Grammer School. :unsure: :unsure: dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 (edited) closed down all the grammer schools years ago. i never made Grammer School. Edited September 14, 2011 by Billy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 You will always get trouble with punctuation these days as the government closed down all the grammer schools years ago. Really? there about half a dozen excellent grammar schools within about 15 miles of where I live But of course that fact may have come straight out of the Daily Mail . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humperdingle Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 You will always get trouble with punctuation these days as the government closed down all the grammer schools years ago. please insert your own .,;:' I got no idea -i never made Grammer School. :unsure: :unsure: dave Not sure you can really blame grammar schools (or their absence). I wasn't too hot on punctuation at school, but picked up a dictionary and taught myself how to get it right... Well... Most of the time :blink: In today's internet age, it's surely even easier to learn such things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSPUK Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Oh dear - look for the double meaning people - grammer Police - grammer school. I must be too old. dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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