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Skriven 2007-03-21 08:16:37 av alexander koryagin
     Kommentar till en text av Ardith Hinton (1:153/716)
Ärende: Re: Proposal for F2EP abbreviation
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From: "alexander koryagin" <koryagin@erec.ru>

F2EP
Hi, Ardith Hinton! How are you?
on Sunday, 18 of  March, you wrote to Alexander Koryagin about
"Proposal for F2EP abbreviation"

 AK>>  In principle F2EP is enough, the student just have to write
 AH>                                                    | has

In Russia we say the student has yawned. ;) He has not yet reached an
automatism in this area.

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 AK>>  By the way, when I write such a sequence of exclamations
 AK>>  should I use capital letters after '!'?
 AH>           Adding to what Dallas said... the exclamation mark is usually
 AH> used at the end of a sentence, in much the same way a period or a
 AH> question mark is.

"Usually used" is not a rule? It seems to me I saw somewhere sentences where
capital letters were not put after the '!'. Actually it's like using ';' or
',' when dividing sentences inside complex sentence. Like this:
=========Beginning of the citation==============
Each punctuation mark is introduced in turn; its proper use is described
with the aid of lots of examples; wherever possible I give you some simple
rules for checking your punctuation.
=========The end of the citation================

We put ';' to show that it is one long sentence, although it consists of
three. What the difference between '!' and ';'? Can I in principal write
sentence after '!' without a capital letter? What about '?'
Or may be it is better always follow the strict rule that after '?', '!' I
must put a word with a capital letter and to begin, in this way, a new
sentence.

 AH> By not using a dash (--) or some approximation of same you are
 AH> indicating that the next word begins a new sentence.  You could also
 AH> have put it this way:
 AH>            The more we learn the less we know.  Oops!  What am I
 AH> saying?
 AH>            The more we write... [etc.].


 AK>>  suject here is the English Grammar, but not Mr. Bush. ;)
     |> subject here is English grammar, not Mr. Bush.


What the difference (in the using of articles) when I write "English
grammar" and "the English language"? Or I should write just "English
language" in the sentence like this one:

The subject here is English language.

AH> As long as nobody's snarling at anybody else I'm not concerned about
your choice of subject matter....  :-))

Usually the teachers snarling and growling when the students do not remember
what they have been taught. ;=) Just in case I wanna say that I have no a
great memory.  ;=)

[...Bene vobis]
Bye Ardith!
Alexander
fido7.english-tutor 2007



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