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I think that I’ve now beaten this one to death, so we’ll move on. (iv) Your posts will never be found in Google searches unless they’re properly optimised for your chosen keywords. (iii) Excellent material will go unread unless people know it’s there. (i) Content is only king as far as the SEO is tightly in place. (iv) Readers will be distracted by mistakes, rather than be wowed with your genius. (iii) Ungrammatical sentences do not portray professionalism. (ii) Articles with errors show a lack of writing and editing skills.
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(i) Readers aren’t impressed with mistake-littered posts. The ability to write grammatically correct sentences Brackets are useful for enclosing numbers in your writingĪ good blogger should possess the following skills.ġ. If this is so, then you’ve placed the brackets in the right place.īrackets are very useful when adding additional (though not crucial) information to your sentence. If you’re having problems in placing brackets correctly, check to see if removing the phrase you inserted would leave you with a sentence that makes complete sense. My dad persisted for months (even though I expressed no interest) about me joining the armed forces. Use brackets to enclose a statement inserted into a sentence Remember to stick with whatever (double or single inverted commas) you’ve chosen, so that your writing is consistent throughout. Shakespeare did not know how popular he would make Hamlet when he penned that mighty phrase, ‘To be or not to be’. I was terrified the first time I read Stephen King’s ‘ Misery’.
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Use inverted commas to enclose quotations Notice again that all punctuation marks are enclosed within the inverted commas.Ģ. The first word of a direct speech is always capitalised – proper noun or not. The reason ‘Y’ in ‘yes’ is capitalised is because it starts the direct speech. A different way to write the above sentence is:
#Backwards question mark full#
‘Answered’ would not be capitalised after the inverted commas because it is not a proper noun, it came after a comma (not a full stop, question mark, or exclamation mark), and it does not start a new sentence. ‘Shrek’ the word that follows the inverted comma, is a proper noun so it naturally begins with a capital letter (and it also follows a question mark). Shrek’s question – including the question mark – is included within the inverted commas. “Are you going to finish that?” Shrek asked Fiona. My sister’s entire speech needs to be inside the quotation marks and this includes the exclamation mark which relates to what she said. Punctuation marks (question mark, exclamation mark, full stop etc.) are always enclosed within the inverted commas. Once you’ve written down what the person actually said, remember to put a suitable punctuation mark, then end off with the second half of the inverted commas. Next, comes the first part of the inverted commas, followed by the person’s direct speech. My boss said to me, “Your back pay cheque was sent to you today.”Ī comma has to be placed before the start of the direct speech. I don’t think it matters which one you follow, as long as you’re consistent throughout your writing so that your readers are clear about what you mean. Some publishing houses, bloggers and writers believe the opposite. One school of thought says that double inverted commas (“they look like this”) should be used for direct speech, and the single ones (‘they look like this’) for quotations. They are used to enclose direct speech or a quotation. When to use inverted commas or quotation marks See the writing tips page on this blog for more useful writing tutorials.
#Backwards question mark how to#
In the three sections below, you’ll learn how to use these common punctuation marks and make your blog posts pop. This lesson is a quick reminder and is not meant to be all-inclusive or definitive. Inverted commas (quotation marks), brackets and capital letters can be quite confusing to use for some people.