punctuation check

[Don G]

QUOTE=crappiepappy;1001473]... I think there's a need for more than the one comma :p (but, not where you have it placed)

The quotation marks around Roman Fever are there to note that this is a quoted title ... and should stand alone. Therefore, any punctuation marks should be placed OUTSIDE of those quotation marks, because the punctuation's role is to help clarify & divide separate thoughts within the sentence. When a word/phrase/etc is enclosed in quotaton marks, consider it as though it were just ONE WORD ... and you'll see why the punctuation marks would always go outside of the quotes.

Personally, I'd make more than one sentence out of it. Maybe something like :

Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever” is centered around two middle aged widows. They're sitting on a hotel terrace, overlooking the seven hills on which ancient Rome is built.

Or, as one sentence :

Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever” is centered around two middle aged widows, sitting on a hotel terrace, overlooking the seven hills on which ancient Rome is built.

:D ... OK English Majors/Teachers ... what grade would I get on these

... cp

Oh, and Phantom is correct about the word ancient not being capitalized. There was never a real place known as Ancient Rome ... so the word ancient is just being used to classify the time period, not designate a specific name or place.[/QUOTE]

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[Phantom309]

I wouldn't put a comma after "widow"....... in that second example.
Also, I had a problem with something I was writing one time and asked a friend's wife (copy proofer for big company)
and she said one should use the "local" custom of how they use the thing, etc, etc.......
I would think she meant regional usage, etc.
Something like "When in Rome, do as the Romans do".......

[CrappiePappy]

This post was graded by Blackie Blevins

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BUSTED :p

I'm just glad it wasn't graded by Shoer :D

And if it was reworded by Dayton ... it would probably say : Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever” is centered around two middle aged widows, sitting on a hotel terrace, overlooking the seven hills on which ancient Rome is built, talking about this one time at Band Camp.

Tell that old heathen I said he's gonna ruin his eyesight, with all that oogling at them nudie beaches :p

.. cp

[Don G]

BUSTED :p

I'm just glad it wasn't graded by Shoer :D

And if it was reworded by Dayton ... it would probably say : Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever” is centered around two middle aged widows, sitting on a hotel terrace, overlooking the seven hills on which ancient Rome is built, talking about this one time at Band Camp.

Tell that old heathen I said he's gonna ruin his eyesight, with all that oogling at them nudie beaches :p

.. cp

Pappy, Blackie is 76 now and hasn't been back to the nude beaches in a couple of years.

This is why he doesn't go anymore::

YouTube - Stan Boreson - I Just Don't Look Good Naked Anymore

[crappieseeker]

creekslick, does your wife have a plagiarism checker? I have tried the free stuff on the net and I have not really found a good site. I do not recall using anyone elses ideas simply because I took a different twist to my essay than most. However you never know whether something you write might match something someone else writes and I would not want to be accused of plagiarism.

[crappieseeker]

Actually in that sentence you do not use a comma because it would seperate the subject and verb. I did great on my first essay. I made a 93. Thanks for the help. I am fixing to turn in my second one.