Grammar help?

[LimpyLionel]

Question 1.

Which is correct?

A - Despite saying this game is "not good".

B - Despite saying this game is "not good."

Question 2.

Do music genres have capital letters?

For example: House, Trance, Electro... etc

Question 3.

When writing, for example: House, Trance, Electro... etc << Is the 'etc' or 'Etc'?

Question 4.

Is there a name for the three full stops after a sentence? For example: House, Trance, Eletcro...

Question 5.

Do you use quotation marks out of these examples?

A - It was 'Jurassic Park;' [or for double quotation marks]

B - It was 'Jurassic Park:' [or for double quotation marks]

Question 6

What's the different between using (these) and [these]?

[DTCwordfan]

are you American or a Brit?

[MarkRae]

There's no grammatical need to use either single or double inverted commas in this case, so pick the one you like or use none at all. However, if you do use them, you need to consider them as part of the word they are highlighting and keep any punctuation marks outside them.

This has been stated more than once now...

[Milvus]

No Mark, you are on the wrong trail. If, for instance, you defined house music as having a bpm (beats per minute) of 120, then trance 140 bpm etc, in a contract or product definition then you should use capitals for House etc. Jimi and Miles have capitals because that is their chosen name. However, if you defined a guitar sound related to specific amps and effects, to Jimi's "normal" set up, then as a product (as in Amplitube) Jimi Hendrix would be a defined term.

[DTCwordfan]

Brit = The biggest film of all time is "Avatar;'" in 1993, it was "Jurassic Park."

[LimpyLionel]

An ellipsis question, too:

Which is correct, example 1 or 2?

1. And it was through... too many beers.

OR

2. And it was through... Too many beers.


Thanks.

[MarkRae]

What on earth are you talking about? I never suggested not spelling people's names with capital letters...

[DTCwordfan]

Being pedantic now as I didn't delete a ' back there ^^^

Please do so.

[DTCwordfan]

Last question does not make any sense, unless you are talking about the beer passin through you!

[LimpyLionel]

boxtops - So you would write, it was 'Jurassic Park.' instead of it was 'Jurassic Park'.

And why?

[boxtops]

DT, I can't agree with you - the semi-colon and full stop marks must be outside the quotation marks.

[Milvus]

OK Mark, I've reread your post "Would you really say that e.g. Jimi Hendrix was a Rock guitarist or Miles Davis a Jazz musician...?". My mistake re names. However the rest about defined terms stands

[MarkRae]

LL, no you would not. You would write 'Jurassic Park'. You would not write 'Jurassic Park.' no matter where you might come from...

This is now, by my reckoning, the sixth time this has been explained to you...

[LimpyLionel]

I'm from England.

[MarkRae]

> If, for instance, you defined house music as having a bpm (beats per minute) of 120, then trance 140 bpm etc

It can't have escaped you that you didn't give either of those music genres a capital letter... :-)

[boxtops]

//boxtops - So you would write, it was 'Jurassic Park.' instead of it was 'Jurassic Park'.//

No, that's not what I said at all, I wrote it out - the full stop must be after the quotation marks. "Jurassic Park".

[NOX]

I haven't laughed so much for years... well done limpy;-)

[DTCwordfan]

I will accept that, boxtops. However, there is form for my way, as it used to be the "modus operandi." "Typical" buqqering around with language - imagine what this does for those learning the lingo.

(and just for clarity, the full stop and comma should be inside the quotation marks)

[DTCwordfan]

http://www.say-it-in-english.com/Lesson18.html

[boxtops]

LOL DT, not in my book - the full stop etc would only be inside the quotation marks if they formed a part of the title of the film. A full stop is the end of the sentence, you can't have quotation marks after it unless it's reported speech. 'He said, "I like 'Jurassic Park".'

[DTCwordfan]

well look at the examples, the period/full stop falls within.