GRAMMAR LESSON #19: PROPER NOUNS AND QUESTION MARKSTake a look at the following sentences:
What happend to the danes and to the finns? Your cartoon discriminates against these two countries. They are also apart of scandinavia.
A
noun is a person, place, or thing. A
proper noun is a
specific person, place, or thing. For example, "city" is a noun, but "Salt Lake City" is a proper noun. Proper nouns must be capitalized, so "Danes," "Finns," and "Scandinavia" need to be capitalized.
Also:
a part: One part of. EXAMPLES: "The drive shaft is a part of the transmission." "Finding people to teach is a part of missionary work."
apart: Separate from; not connected to. EXAMPLES: "I hate it when my pound cakes fall apart." "We graduated six years apart."
With those two principles in mind, the quoted sentence should've been written:
What happend to the Danes and to the Finns? Your cartoon discriminates against these two countries. They are also a part of Scandinavia.
Here are two more sentences:
Did you understand when Runtu and others brought up high heat technology in a thread discussing iron smelting, that it meant temperatures high enough to smelt iron. If yes, do you agree that the Olmec did not obtain high enough temperatures to smelt Iron.
Whenever you ask a question, the sentence
must end with a question mark. Therefore, the above-quoted sentences should've been written as follows:
Did you understand when Runtu and others brought up high heat technology in a thread discussing iron smelting, that it meant temperatures high enough to smelt iron? If yes, do you agree that the Olmec did not obtain high enough temperatures to smelt iron?
Now go thou and sin no more.
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--Louis Midgley