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]?

[boxtops]

That link you posted, DT, says very clearly that the semicolon, comma, etc., are outside the QMs...

[Stargazer]

This makes interesting reading. I am glad to see that some people do still understand grammar. I particularly remember double negatives being explained to me by a pedantic English teacher but I have always remembered all the other correct ways to punctuate I learned ,(what about "learnt", which was spelled this way twice in my granddaughter's School Report), in his lessons.The only thing that still has me puzzled is when to put an apostrophe after the word ie childrens', girls', Charles' (or Charles's), clothes' etc. Anyone care to explain.

[LimpyLionel]

Thank you, DT.

[DTCwordfan]

And you are way off with your quotation marks, with due respect. In this instance, the period falls outside the end quotation but inside the speech quotation. Double " on the outerr, ' for any speech within the conversation.

"He said, "I like 'Jurassic Park'."

[boxtops]

stargazer, the apostrophe goes after the to denote possession - e/g/ Charles' car. There is no S in children so it's children's clothes.
The girl's dress is for one girl, the girls' dresses if there are several girls.

[boxtops]

^ ooops - e.g.

[DTCwordfan]

says he, making spelling typos!

[LimpyLionel]

Stargazer

It was the girls' £50 I lost.

It was the girl's who lost £50.

[DTCwordfan]

both apostrophes are correct, LL, depending on whether plural or singular as you have written them.

[boxtops]

OK DT, I can accept that - I find the QMs interchangeable in many publications but I'll go with your version (even though the doubles at the beginning really ought to have another set at the end, but it starts to look silly then).

[MarkRae]

> The only thing that still has me puzzled is when to put an apostrophe after the word ie childrens', girls', Charles' (or Charles's), clothes.

It's simple enough, SG.

Children is already plural - it's the plural form of 'child' - so the children's clothes were on the floor.

Girl's = belonging to the girl
Girls' = belonging to the girls

Charles ends with an 's' so Charles' clothes were on the floor. Cf you can only get to heaven in Jesus' name, etc.

As for clothes, again that's easy because there's no singular form of this noun i.e. clothe. Therefore, the clothes' colour had faded over time.

[DTCwordfan]

sorry, on reflection your No. 2 needs a word in the ...girl's bookie who lost £

[Stargazer]

Boxtops. Why does childrens need an apostrophe at all?

[DTCwordfan]

I agree on that, boxtops. What a bloody daft language we have! No wonder the Yanks charged Andrew Carnegie to simplify it - he was, apparently, slightly dyslexic.

[MarkRae]

> It was the girls' £50 I lost.

That's correct.


> It was the girl's who lost £50.

That's incorrect because the plural of girl is girls, not girl's.

[LimpyLionel]

So, why does this guy (http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/
posts/review-horrible-bosses-plays-too-nice-f
or-its-own-good)
write using this way:

So, last night I saw 'Jurassic Park.'

Instead of boxtops' way of...

So, last night I saw 'Jurassic Park'.

Is it because the writer uses double quotations instead of single quotations??

[DTCwordfan]

because sg, the plural of children is children, so to speak. Childrens is not correct and "yeeeuuuuck" to see; childrens' coats is ok.

[boxtops]

Because it's the "clothes of the children", stargazer. The children's clothes. There is no such word as childrens.

[DTCwordfan]

Because it was scripted by an imbecile from Hollywood!

No, seriously, by an American.

[boxtops]

Limpy - the reviewer has got it wrong. He's not up to speed on his punctuation...