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Roger wants to kill, Wendy, so I locked him in this room.
Which sentence is correct?
A. The teacher called
Best Headphones, Emma, but I answered.
B. The teacher called Emma, but I answered.
Answer: It depends. If you’re talking to Emma
dr dre monster beats, telling her that Miss Sharkface
phoned your house to report missing homework but you, not your mom,
picked up the phone, then sentence A is correct. However, if you’re explain-
ing that the teacher screamed to Emma, “Bring your homework up here this
minute!” and instead you replied, “Miss Sharkface, Emma asked me to tell you
that a dog ate her homework,” sentence B is correct.
Using Commas in Addresses and Dates
Commas are good, all-purpose separators. They won’t keep you and your
worst enemy apart
newports cigarettes coupon, but they do a fine job on addresses and dates — espe-
cially when items that are usually placed on individual lines are put next to
each other on the same line.
Addressing addresses
Where are you from? Jill is from Mars. Belle is from a small town called
Venus. Here’s her (fictional) address, the way you see it on an envelope:
Ms. Belle Planet
223 Center Street
Venus, New York 10001
In the body of a letter, you can insert an address in “envelope form” like this:
Please send a dozen rockets to the following address:
Ms. Belle Planet
223 Center Street
Venus
cheap newport cigarettes, New York 10001
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The introductory words (Please send a dozen rockets to the following address)
end with a colon ( : ) if they express a complete unit of thought. If the intro-
ductory words leave you hanging (Please send a dozen rockets to, for exam-
ple), don’t use a colon.
If you put Belle’s address into a sentence, you have to separate each item of
the address
newport cigarette, as you see here:
Belle Planet lives at 223 Center Street, Venus, New York 10001.
Here’s the address (envelope style) for her best friend Jill:
Jill Willis
53 Asimov Court
Mars, California 90210
And now the sentence version:
Jill Willis lives at 53 Asimov Court, Mars, California 90210.
Notice that the house number and street are not separated by a comma, nor
ar