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Capital Letters and Full Stops
Capital Letters and Full Stops
Capital Letters and Full Stops
Here, there are two complete statements separated by a comma, which is wrong. We have
two possible solutions to this problem:
b) Norway has applied for EC membership, and Sweden is expected to do the same.
(Using the connecting word and to turn the two short statements into a longer one.)
Here are more examples of this very common error, can you rewrite them?
*Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest countries, its annual income is only $80 per
person.
*The British are notoriously bad at learning foreign languages, the Dutch are famously
good at it.
*The proposal to introduce rock music to Radio 3 has caused an outcry, angry letters
have been pouring into the BBC.
*Borg won his fifth straight Wimbledon title in 1980, the following year he lost in the
final to McEnroe.
Full stops are also sometimes used in punctuating abbreviations, such as e.g., Mr.,P.S.,
etc.