Is this gramatically correct?

[etalns]

?Interpersonal communication is not limited to vocal interactions. Hand gestures, letters, and even a smile or frown is an example of interpersonal communication.? may have been a more effective third sentence.

Would the M in "may" be capitalized? If it was capitalized it would be its own sentence (iirc) and then it would be a fragment, would it not?

 

[edro]

Looks good to me and I am a Literature major.

 

[lytalbayre]

Originally posted by: Qosis

?Interpersonal communication is not limited to vocal interaction. Hand gestures, letters, and even a smile or frown, are examples of interpersonal communication.? > (FIXED)

may have been a more effective third sentence. >(WHAT THE HELL??)

(MAYBE) > 'Using these gestures may have been a more effective third sentence.

Would the M in "may" be capitalized? If it was capitalized it would be its own sentence (iirc) and then it would be a fragment, would it not? >(NO....)

 

[SampSon]

Lord a mercy kid, can you do your homework without asking a question here? hehehe

 

[Mermaidman]

Even if it's correct, I would reword the sentence so that it's not cumbersome. For example,

It may have been more effective for you to write "Interpersonal communication is not limited to . . . "

 

[mugs]

I think the end of the quote should have a comma, not a period.

 

[mugs]

And the guy quoted two sentences and referred to it as "a ... sentence"

 

[mugs]

And the correction he gave you sucks. I think it should be:

?Interpersonal communication is not limited to vocal interactions. Hand gestures, letters, and even smiles or frowns are examples of interpersonal communication,? may have been a more effective third sentence.

 

[hjo3]

The M should not be capitalized.

 

[darkxshade]

If he's quoting then how the sentence is spelled or gramatically structured is not important. I think what he wants to know is if his saying "may have been a more effective third sentence" after the quote is gramatically correct.

 

[etalns]

Originally posted by: edro
Looks good to me and I am a Literature major.

Superb, thanks a bunch!

 

[etalns]

Originally posted by: mugs
And the correction he gave you sucks. I think it should be:

?Interpersonal communication is not limited to vocal interactions. Hand gestures, letters, and even smiles or frowns are examples of interpersonal communication,? may have been a more effective third sentence.

Ahh, forgot about that. Thanks a lot!

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: darkxshade
If he's quoting then how the sentence is spelled or gramatically structured is not important. I think what he wants to know is if his saying "may have been a more effective third sentence" after the quote is gramatically correct.

The writer is giving an alternate version to something someone else wrote. He's quoting his own words.

 

[etalns]

Originally posted by: SampSon
Lord a mercy kid, can you do your homework without asking a question here? hehehe

I'm not asking anyone to do my work, I'm just asking if something I am doing is correct. It's not easy to find an answer to this sort of question on Google.

 

[SampSon]

Originally posted by: Qosis

Originally posted by: SampSon
Lord a mercy kid, can you do your homework without asking a question here? hehehe

I'm not asking anyone to do my work, I'm just asking if something I am doing is correct. It's not easy to find an answer to this sort of question on Google.

You should know by now that everything you do is incorrect!

Just pullin' your leg.

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: Qosis

Originally posted by: SampSon
Lord a mercy kid, can you do your homework without asking a question here? hehehe

I'm not asking anyone to do my work, I'm just asking if something I am doing is correct. It's not easy to find an answer to this sort of question on Google.

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[IdaGno]

?Interpersonal communication is not limited to vocal interactions. Hand gestures, letters, even smiles or frowns, are examples of interpersonal communication.?, may have been a more effective third sentence.

Then again, I may not understand the context, though the mixing of singulars & plurals = is/are ambiguity.

 

[darkxshade]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: darkxshade
If he's quoting then how the sentence is spelled or gramatically structured is not important. I think what he wants to know is if his saying "may have been a more effective third sentence" after the quote is gramatically correct.

The writer is giving an alternate version to something someone else wrote. He's quoting his own words.

good point, didn't realize that

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: IdaGno
?Interpersonal communication is not limited to vocal interactions. Hand gestures, letters, even smiles or frowns, are examples of interpersonal communication.?, may have been a more effective third sentence.

The last comma shouldn't be there.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: Qosis

?Interpersonal communication is not limited to vocal interactions. Hand gestures, letters, and even a smile or frown is an example of interpersonal communication.? may have been a more effective third sentence.

Would the M in "may" be capitalized? If it was capitalized it would be its own sentence (iirc) and then it would be a fragment, would it not?

Is that "may have been a more effective third sentence" an edit by a proof-reader? Like they are giving you some suggestions or something?

edit: nvm i re-read it and Ich versteh jetzt.

 

[Amdiggidy]

Originally posted by: mugs
And the correction he gave you sucks. I think it should be:

?Interpersonal communication is not limited to vocal interactions. Hand gestures, letters, and even smiles or frowns are examples of interpersonal communication,? may have been a more effective third sentence.

Mugs hit the nail on the head. The 'm' should not be capitalized, and there should be a comma at the end of the quote, not a period.

 

[hjo3]

.

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: mugs
I think the end of the quote should have a comma, not a period.

:thumbsup:

 

[Kadarin]

So would the first sentence or the second sentence within the quotes be considered as the more effective "third" sentence?