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Is this gramatically correct?

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etalns

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?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.
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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?
 
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.
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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....)
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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 . . . "
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
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Ahh, forgot about that. Thanks a lot!
 
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.
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The writer is giving an alternate version to something someone else wrote. He's quoting his own words.
 
Originally posted by: SampSon
Lord a mercy kid, can you do your homework without asking a question here? hehehe
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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.
 
Originally posted by: Qosis
Originally posted by: SampSon
Lord a mercy kid, can you do your homework without asking a question here? hehehe
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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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You should know by now that everything you do is incorrect!

Just pullin' your leg.
 
Originally posted by: Qosis
Originally posted by: SampSon
Lord a mercy kid, can you do your homework without asking a question here? hehehe
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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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?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.
 
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.
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The writer is giving an alternate version to something someone else wrote. He's quoting his own words.
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good point, didn't realize that 😛
 
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.
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The last comma shouldn't be there.
 
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.
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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?
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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.
 
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.
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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.
 
So would the first sentence or the second sentence within the quotes be considered as the more effective "third" sentence?
 
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