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25
Jan
2012
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters // technology

18 days ago by Umair

Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two ...

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24
Jan
2012
ELL: Several Most Frequent Punctuation Marks

19 days ago by admin-howto

Have you ever go through some text or page that was comprised of text, text, plus more text but no punctuation? Nicely, I am pleased to mention i always have, that i’m a number of That i used to just before I figured out English Syntax and Punctuation. Even though dealing with an English Vocabulary ...

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12
Jan
2012
apostrophe or not apostrophe....(bloglet)... 12 January 2012...

31 days ago by meonomous

so Waterstone's bookshop (pay attention to the /'/ apostrophe as this will be important as this blog progresses) wishes to drop the apostrophe(

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21
Dec
2011
Picture Passwords Let You Unlock Your Device By Drawing On A Family Photo

53 days ago by Unlock iPhone

In a blog post published Friday, Microsoft talks about their latest technology currently in Developer Preview – and it has to do with security. Passwords, to be specific. But not just ordinary alphanumeric passwords. the dev team talks about what they hope to be the future of Windows 8 security – pi ...

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05
Dec
2011
Uses of comma in a complex sentence

69 days ago by tutor

The comma is used to separate an adverb clause from its principal clause. After he finished his studies, he joined the army. Before I go out, I will give you a call. Note that when the adverb clause comes after the principal clause or when it is very short, the comma is usually omitted. He joined th ...

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29
Nov
2011
The Origins of Punctuation Marks

75 days ago by Paul Sybrandy

Something that I have found from Google+. Very interesting and I think is important to understand. It provides a lot of insight into the punctuation marks that we all use every single day. Question Mark ? Origin: When early scholars wrote in Latin, they would place the word questio – meaning “questi ...

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26
Nov
2011
Common mistakes in the use of punctuation marks

78 days ago by tutor

English makes liberal use of punctuation marks. In fact, written English would hardly make sense if no punctuation marks were used. Here are some common mistakes in the use of punctuation marks. A sentence must end with a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark. She is a lovely girl. Is th ...

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13
Nov
2011
PUNCTUATION

91 days ago by Gillian McClure

Commas, full stops, colons, semi-colons, hyphens and dashes are like the bones of a skeleton lying beneath the meaning of a sentence. As a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, I have to help students at Essex University with their writing. Last week, a very able student from Pakistan brought along a close re ...

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27
Oct
2011
Coolest Punctuation Marks EVER

108 days ago by Michelle McLean

I saw this link on Facebook and had to share. Some of these are really cool....like the interrobang, and the question comma and exclamation comma - seriously, I LOVE these, I'd use them all the time :D Someone needs to add them to a keyboard lol http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/13-punctuation-mar ...

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12
Oct
2011
Quick and Dirty Tips for Effective Corporate Blogging, pt 3

122 days ago by Buildify

This is part three in a series about tips for good corporate blogging. We touched on three tips in both the first part and the second part of this series – Now here are another handful of tips for your consideration. - 7 – Write clearly and concisely when it comes to everything that you publish in y ...

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