Doug talks about some local species of butterflies, ones with cool names like mourning cloaks, commas, and question marks. |
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The middle finger of my right hand, the one I need to type all of the lovely commas I use in my writing, is red. |
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I took my sit in Creative Writing and listened as Mr. Thompson lectured the class on when to use commas and semicolons when writing a story. |
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Lawrenson simply underlines or puts inverted commas around what Hansen says. |
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For book titles, phrases et cetera, put the words in double inverted commas, as with other Google searches. |
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Note that attributes are separated by commas, whereas each rule ends with a semicolon. |
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Technically, Miss Stein's economy of commas may be compared with a complete renunciation of the pedal in playing the piano. |
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I deliberately put it in inverted commas in that written submission, cognisant of that very issue. |
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Byatt admittedly isn't in this league, but she does have a penchant for sentences with lots of commas. |
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He often used commas to end a sentence, he rarely capitalized proper nouns. |
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You make punctuation mistakes on a regular basis, particularly by using commas when semi-colons or full stops are required. |
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With the addition of a few commas and the striking out of the one paragraph, the deal already on the table will finally go through. |
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Search engines see hyphens and commas as spaces, which is why they would count that example as the same word next to itself. |
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Use versals in the beginning of a sentence, use punctuation, and commas where appropriate. |
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One of these days, I might learn to express myself without the aid of implied inverted commas. |
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Counting only letters, and ignoring characters like spaces and commas and hyphens, you can see the proof in the definition. |
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I use inverted commas because I believe we don't actually own it but lease it from the Americans. |
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The slashes in Caxton's text were an experiment in punctuation, and are roughly equivalent to commas. |
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These are the author's italics, brackets, inverted commas, and the author's absurdly pretentious diction. |
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His personal philosophy of punctuation is, ideally, to avoid all punctuation marks except commas and full stops. |
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The dominant American style is to include commas and periods within quotation marks even when that punctuation doesn't belong to the quotation. |
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Aren't the elements of sexism and racism all in inverted commas and hence essentially playful and harmless? |
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I once saw a three-line sentence with eighteen commas, which basically meant that there was a comma after every other word. |
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You should not end your sentence before you have a subject and verb appropriately placed, nor jam all your sentences together with commas. |
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He lectured the class on when to use commas and semicolons when writing a story. |
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I use inverted commas advisedly, because there is nothing less real than a TV reality show. |
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This book's a success, it's true, even though it's about commas, apostrophes, colons, dashes and other marks. |
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I put the word in inverted commas because this isn't like the classrooms I remember from school. |
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The writer uses no commas or full stops, and many of the words are misspelt. |
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Bad spellings, misplaced commas and apostrophes may be acceptable in text messages. |
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I was pretty disappointed when I found out commas were just little punctuation marks. |
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The comma thing does make me aware how much I use punctuation in general and commas specifically for intonation in my writing. |
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There were such ridiculous amendments as to change semicolons to commas, or change implementation dates. |
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But it's hard enough for some people to acquire an instinctive sense of the different uses of commas, let alone the employment of colons and semi-colons. |
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It's an instrumental album featuring classical instrumentation, it features gorgeous packaging, and most of the song titles are either in French or chock full of commas. |
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It sounds as if the entire text is being spoken in inverted commas. |
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The comment is not intended ironically, no inverted commas are used. |
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The inverted commas indicate the workings of an inferiority complex. |
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The inverted commas indicate that neither term is entirely appropriate. |
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Or, as I have done, phoned up someone, got their voice mail and started putting commas and full stops into my message because I forgot I wasn't dictating. |
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Its media use inverted commas around the names of Taiwanese government bodies to cast doubt upon their legitimacy. |
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Attributes are always written within a start tag and are followed by an equals sign and the attribute details written between inverted commas. |
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Also as inverted commas are used to delimit string, they cannot be used within string as part of the search pattern. |
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The decision whether matter should be between commas, round brackets, or dashes is made by author or editor, and may be a matter of personal, editorial, or house style. |
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As an array contains more than one value, the individual values are placed in curly braces, and separated with commas. |
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Good sections on the placement of terminal punctuation within closing quotation marks and the use of apostrophes and commas. |
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Separates fields with commas, and inserts quotation marks only around character fields that contain a comma or quotation mark. |
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Can we roll back the tide of misplaced apostrophes and commas? |
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Separates all fields with commas, and inserts quotation marks around character and hexadecimal fields. |
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Another novel with an overabundance of periods and a dismissive attitude toward commas. |
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Only should it learn expression that is easy on commas, points, colons, exclamatory and to question marks. |
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To create or edit the Authorized Hosts list, type host names in the text box, separating each name by new lines, spaces, commas or semi-colons. |
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Because when the pure O exploded, my life grew inverted commas and flew away. |
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Ironic style distances the process of gentrification by putting it in inverted commas. |
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If filename does not contain spaces, it does not need to be enclosed in inverted commas. |
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As it is the official name of an institution, I propose surrounding the name with inverted commas. |
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Enclosing the long file name with spaces in inverted commas solves the problem. |
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In this tradition, notions like reality and truth are seldom used without inverted commas. |
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Next, let me say a few works on the Helsinki Six', in inverted commas once again, who entered into negotiations at the beginning of this year. |
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There is no need to use inverted commas if label of your NTFS disk contains just one word. |
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Make it understand that the words you have typed form a whole by putting them in inverted commas. |
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I put inverted commas around this, however the interpreters may translate these. |
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Very quickly I can write from memory the Nicene Creed including all of the commas. |
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And, in the deepest forest bunker of the lot, Sir Brian Leveson adds dots and commas. |
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Notice that there are no commas in our declaration or assignment of the list, nor in the printed result. |
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You can also create phrases using punctuation or special characters such as dashes, underscore lines, commas, slashes, or dots. |
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Missing commas and run-on sentences may not be a bad thing for teenagers engaged in writing-intensive online activity, says a Purdue University English professor. |
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I thank you all for reading, commenting, arguing and bearing with me while I figured out how to string words into sentences, and use commas, effectively. |
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And not using commas or question marks in the correct places at all times. |
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Semicolons are replaced by final periods, and the slight pauses created by commas are replaced by the more definite separations of colons or semicolons. |
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On a lesser note, I applaud the author's use of serial commas. |
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Then your application will be buff and strong and it will laugh in the face of wimpy problems like people who use commas instead of dots as the decimal. |
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Her translations of the new essays read well, though there are some odd anachronisms like 'trendy' and 'dumbed down' and a slightly over-fastidious application of commas. |
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It was that old newspaper trick of using single inverted commas, safe in the knowledge that most readers wouldn't know this meant it was a paraphrase. |
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You can enter up to four IP addresses separated by commas. |
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You can specify several e-mail addresses separating them by commas. |
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The other day there were commas and red admirals in attendance on its pretty mauve flowers. |
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We will get married because we don't want our relationship to exist in inverted commas. |
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Everything we presented between inverted commas was taken from this diary. |
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A pair of dashes are an alternative to commas or brackets for parenthesis when you want to draw the reader's attention to something surprising or unusual. |
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From who and whom to hyphens, from commas to plain language, from usage woes to grammar myths, these articles present clear, concise explanations of the thorniest points of the language. |
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Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas. |
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List extra codes in sequence, separated by commas. |
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In a world where we've become used to fairytales being slyly reimagined in inverted commas, Branagh approaches the story with a straight face. |
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He was a sloppy punctuator, often leaving out commas and confusing colons with semicolons. |
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Titles of publications are in inverted commas. |
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For greater readability, common nouns are given in lowercase roman, country names in uppercase roman, city names in italics and titles of publications with inverted commas. |
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The whole thing was just so 'poetic', in inverted commas. |
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Books feel different without inverted commas. |
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It can replace commas, semicolons, colons, or parentheses. |
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Separate the individual search terms using commas or spaces. |
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Do we imagine that this is a kingdom which is quite like earthly monarchies, only a little bit vaguer, a little bit more «spiritual», between inverted commas, and a little bit less demanding than real? |
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A comma-delimited file has commas as the delimiter, separating each field of the file. |
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Exceptional parents are very clever when it comes to misplaced hyphens, commas, and dangling participles. |
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The camera's high resolution of 300dpi in RGB means that it can detect the minutest deviation from the original PDF, right down to commas in 5-point fonts. |
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Curly braces are used to hold data ranges and options and are separated by commas. |
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Unfortunately, it becomes commas and semicolons. |
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Use commas before coordinating conjunctions that link independent clauses. |
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It seemed a shame to disturb it as I walked down the garden, but it quickly fluttered off to join others feeding on buddleia, alongside small tortoiseshells and commas. |
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Intended for use by students in middle and high school, the software detects run-on sentences and missing commas and has expanded its sentence fragment detection. |
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Leeds is much more a generalised concept place name in inverted commas, it is the city, but it is also the commuter villages and the region as well. |
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The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas. |
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Gertrude Stein, who might, in her time, have been considered a bit of a bossyboots herself, suggested that semicolons were simply commas with pretensions. |
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