by Mignon Fogarty Today's topic is how to use colons. The podcast edition of this article was sponsored by GoToMeeting. With this meeting service, you can hold your meetings over the Internet and give presentations, product demos, and training sessio

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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama held what was called a working lunch with Afghanistans President Hamid Karzai in Kabul today. Obama says Afghanistan has not gotten enough attention because of what he called the distraction posed by th

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Transportation authorities in Europe are opening up more airspace to commercial airline flights despite some ongoing concern about the cloud of volcanic ash that has been lingering over the continent for days. The flights will be restricted to so-cal

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is semicolons. I get questions about semicolons a lot, so it's time to clear up some confusion. Semicolons separate things. Most commonly, they separate two main clauses that are closely related to each other but that

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to use colons. Sallie in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, and a listener named Mike wondered when to use a colon and when to capitalize the first word after a colon. One of my favorite grammar books, titled* Punctuate

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Grammar Girl here. Surprise! You get a bonus show today because Thursday is National Punctuation Day and I'm going to have a slightly different kind of podcast to celebrate. Today's topic is semicolons. I get a lot of questions about semicolons, so i

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