Timeline for Is this sentence grammatically correct?
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| Nov 27, 2015 at 18:35 | comment | added | choster | @jwong Punctuation exists to assist the reader in deciphering the intended meaning of the sentence. You could easily have used a period/full stop, dash, or semicolon in place of a colon, as these would all communicate the same meaning, and be equally grammatical. | |
| Nov 24, 2015 at 4:03 | vote | accept | jwong | ||
| Nov 23, 2015 at 23:42 | answer | added | Josh English | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 13:03 | comment | added | jwong | Thank you @Ale . I was unsure about the grammar of the sentence. And since there are three sentences after the colon, I thought they should be connected by conjunctions or semicolon. Anyway, glad that it is correct :) | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 13:03 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 23, 2015 at 13:02 | comment | added | jwong | Thank you @Lawrence . I was unsure about the grammar of the sentence. And since there are three sentences after the colon, I thought they should be connected by conjunctions or semicolon. Anyway, glad that it is correct :) | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 12:49 | comment | added | Schwale | It clicks on my ears. Besides, past simple can be used to chain actions that happened one after other. | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 12:24 | comment | added | Lawrence | The sentence is grammatically sound. Which part are you concerned about? | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 12:15 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 23, 2015 at 12:14 | history | asked | jwong | CC BY-SA 3.0 |