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Old 24-Apr-2007, 05:41
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Default Re: The teachers here

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Originally Posted by Starstreams View Post
For example: see above in the first sentence of the second paragraph. I said “If I my ask both of you guys; Riyahd and dihen two questions:

I sense there is something wrong with this sentence in blue, but I don’t know what?
-Did I use the colon correct at the end of the sentence?
-Did I use the semi colon correctly to pause?
-And where I said “If I my ask you” I don’t think the sentence is a wordy but something seems fishy about it, I just feel it.
I'd use a comma not a semi-colon as it's apposition. The colon is OK.
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