CRAIG BROWN: All aboard for advice that'll send you loco

As far as advice to young writers goes, I can only say the best way to start a page is to spread out the punctuation along the lines before doing any writing. Say, two or three commas in the first line, followed a few lines later by an exclamation, a couple of hyphens in the middle of the page, and at the bottom, a colon or two.













Documents being made available to schools show that pupils will be expected to know the difference between formal and non-standard English and to learn to proofread their work.



After 8 pages, his agent, who owned the neighboring island called Ireland, had the unfinished manuscript picked up and published in 18 languages.

Any bottle of water kept in your pocket must be securely fastened.

Failure to comply may result in damp patches, which in certain areas may lead to acute embarrassment.








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In the same week, Sushma Swaraj's statement, "There is no full stop in diplomacy, its always commas and semi-colons. After all this, people always move forward," was welcomed with enthusiasm and goodwill from peace activists, the media and the public.

I remember Kawabata wrote a lyrical essay on the Japanese landscape around Mt Fuji without a single word, using only semi colons, some colons and a couple of geisha girls. Words are a hindrance to a sentence that can be composed entirely of punctuation.

Late in the evening after the children had returned from their bath in the drain pipe, she told me that Mrs. Bansal had asked to borrow a pair of children's shoes, but had refused to use the apostrophe. We spent a few years there, and eventually sold the hovel to a builder and moved to another refugee camp.







If you are exempt, you must be prepared for scowls from your fellow passengers. You must wear a face covering over your nose and mouth at all times on the station concourse and on our trains unless you are exempt.


Sample questions show it is likely to cover the correct use of semi-colons as well as personal and impersonal forms.
The brightest pupils will sit a tougher, separate test which may include some extended writing.

With a hefty advance he bought a small island called England and settled down in a cottage to write. After publishing 9 books in 38 languages, many of them extinct, Rashid McSuliman, a Saudi author of Irish descent, began his autobiography pre-named Jose Antony.









They said what? This student caused horror after missing out a comma in their statement