Grammar help?

[LimpyLionel]

Question 1.

Which is correct?

A - Despite saying this game is "not good".

B - Despite saying this game is "not good."

Question 2.

Do music genres have capital letters?

For example: House, Trance, Electro... etc

Question 3.

When writing, for example: House, Trance, Electro... etc << Is the 'etc' or 'Etc'?

Question 4.

Is there a name for the three full stops after a sentence? For example: House, Trance, Eletcro...

Question 5.

Do you use quotation marks out of these examples?

A - It was 'Jurassic Park;' [or for double quotation marks]

B - It was 'Jurassic Park:' [or for double quotation marks]

Question 6

What's the different between using (these) and [these]?

[MarkRae]

Boxy, now it's clear that this whole thread is a wind-up! Anyone who believes that they're going to find grammatically correct writing on a blog site is clearly delusional...

[Stargazer]

Good luck, Limpy. From my experience, the teachers marking your grammar don't even know the correct way to punctuate.

[MarkRae]

So sad, but all too true...

[scotman]

If you want one of the standards you could do a lot worse than this

http://ukcatalogue.ou...duct/9780198605645.do

[DTCwordfan]

That's my point. To me boxtops is correct in the American format.

In English, The biggest film of all time is "Avatar"; in 1993, it was "Jurassic Park."

And if I am to be absolutely correct as to my English for this sentence above.

In English, "The biggest film of all time is 'Avatar'; in 1993, it was 'Jurassic Park'."

[DTCwordfan]

Mark is probably spot on. Period. Full Stop. Aaaaaaaggggggh.

[Stargazer]

Have any of you read Lynn Truss's book "Eats shoots and leaves"?

[boxtops]

DT - yes, I can agree with that version, too.

[LimpyLionel]

So, as I'm English, I should use 'Jurassic Park'. And that's final, yeah?

[MarkRae]

I have indeed, SG.

A woman without her man is nothing.

[DTCwordfan]

Well, tell you what y'all, I'm off to bed!

Probably have a rupture of my colon tonight...

[boxtops]

Indeed I have, stargazer - and the subsequent publication of similar name but which would be censored on here...

[DTCwordfan]

I don't fecking care, LL. Do what you think fit and, hopefully, you may fail your examination.

[boxtops]

which examination is this??

[LimpyLionel]

I'm confused?

[boxtops]

You shouldn't be any more, Lionel. we have explained it clearly enough.

[Stargazer]

Boxtops, I am cracking up here at imagining the title of a subsequent book!

[MarkRae]

Either that, or you're deliberately pretending not to understand something that's been explained to you over and over again...

[boxtops]

I won't write it, stargazer ... here it is http://www.amazon.co....English/dp/1843170981

[LimpyLionel]

I'm joking, boxtops; I was just trying to enrage Mark that bit more (on purpose this time).

Thanks for all your posts, they've been a great help.