Re: How to cheat in exams using mobile phones and calculators


"Pierian Spring" <aiyr.r.bean@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Your remark would be correct only if the person whom you are
> quoting intended that you would pause after you had
> read his word, "spelling".
>
> However, is there one rule for you and a different rule for
> the person whom you are quoting?
>
> By the rule that you suggested, your sentence, "That should
> have had a comma after "spelling".", should have had a
> comma after, "after".

By the way, you don't need a comma after "after" there.

>
> (EOE :-) )
>
> Ian Johnston wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:39:36 UTC, "John Porcella"
>> <bronson69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> : If you are so ignorant of English grammar and/or spelling you should
>> not
>> : post on Usenet.
>>
>> That should have had a comma after "spelling".
> --
>



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