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rolandlytle
1 month ago
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This weekend coming up, I want to spend it with friends and see a movie coming out entitled 'The Age of Adaline.' It is about a young woman, born at the turn of 20th century, who is rendered ageless after an accident. After years of a solitary life, she meets a man who might be worth losing her immortality for. It stars Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford (one of my favorites), and Kathy Baker.

Remember in two weeks 'Avengers; The Age of Ultron' is released. (1 May)
I am watching a TV series I had heard about, but never seen, Game of Thrones. I have read the books, but do not have regular TV services, so I have bought them on DVD. WOW!
I found a old photo of one of the earliest Hollywood sex symbols, Leslie Brooks.
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Attribution that interrupts a dialogue sentence is treated as a non-essential clause, and so is set off by commas.


Thank you Maggie. That cleared it up for me.
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banned for not smoking a corn cob pipe


Damn it! The doctor made me quit. I told him it would cause me trouble.


Banned because at the bottom of all her posts she spelled dog backwards.
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The correct punctuation of your examples is as follows:

"Where is it?" he asked excitedly. (The pronoun remains lowercase after a question mark or exclamation mark because the dialogue tag is part of the same sentence. You could use a comma instead of the question mark.)

"It's about time," he exclaimed giddily. (The comma goes inside the quotation marks.)

and

"It's about time," he said giddily, "that we head out." (This was spot on. )

I don't claim to be an expert on many things, but punctuation is one subject I've mastered.


I trust you on this, you do have much more experience than I. Could you explain why you would have a comma after the word time in the last example? If you moved the tag to the front or the back of the dialog , the dialog would not have a comma in it. ("It's about time that we head out," he said giddily.) Why would the comma be their? Is it because of the tag breaking the dialog sentence? Just trying to learn more.

Well folks the grammar police have me now.
I believe in your first situation; "Where is it?" He asked excitedly. The question mark is inside the quotation marks because the dialog is a question.

In the second situation it should be like this; "It's about time." He exclaimed giddily. If you reversed how it was expressed you would use a comma, like this; He exclaimed giddily, "It's about time."

I am not an expert, but I do it this way and the grammar police have not thrown me in jail yet.
My wife

At what age do you think you were or are going to be the happiest?
To wear or to feel? I will pick silk and lace and just leave it at that.


For a celebrations with your significant other do you prefer a night on the town or quiet time at home.
I may not be something you have heard of overseas, but in Indiana they passed a law that many felt made it possible to discriminate against the LGBT community. There was a huge outcry across the country and in the media about this. It was so bad that the Governor of the state promised to pass an amendment to fix that problem. Now it is two weeks later. The protests have stopped and the media has all but disappeared, but the two amendments that have so far been sent forward to fix the difficulties have thus far been easily voted down. Another politician makes a promise and when your back is turned, does not fulfill it. BTW He just made a speech yesterday stating that he thought the states problems caused by the outrage of that law has passed.
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Banned for singing showtunes instead of sea shanties.


Oh come on... it was The Pirates of Penzance; that should count as a shanty.

Banned for banning old sailors that lost their ships.
Can not help himself from becoming cheerful and dancing around whenever he hears music from the Wizard of Oz.
A wonderful sweet lady who often brightens my day by stopping by to chat when I come on-line.
The Rocky Horror Pitcher Show!

Believe it or not, the soundtrack is rockin.

Watching man take it's first step on another place other than Earth. I was just a young boy then, but the memory is still vivid.
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Today I feel relieved because the Doctors gave me a clean bill of health today and my Rehab is finished.

Happy Dance!!


I feel Happy because of James' good news. It was a long and hard road, but he got there.