It is a transposition error. 13 should be 31.
to emphasize the importance of a word or phrase
A comma should follow the closing if there is a colon following the salutation.
Punctuation after Ms is optional. ======================== I disagree. Punctuation following Mr and Mrs is becoming optional, but I would respectfully submit that it is incorrect to place a period after Ms, because Ms is actually a word and not an abbreviation (as are Mr, for Master, and Mrs, for Mistress).
Mary, Tom, Bob, and Terri went to the show.
Definitely! Some compilers and languages are more forgiving but all computer languages that I know of care about punctuation.For example:in Javascript it is ok to not have a semicolon at the end of a line but in Java it is required. So the following is ok in Javascript but not in Java:a = 5but Javascript still cares about punctuation, so the following would be invalid:a = 5!Of course it would be possible to create a programming language which ignored all punctuation (so ",!a; = :5?" would mean the same as "a = 5") but why would you want to?
The proper punctuation is a period following each, because each is considered to be an abbreviation, but nowadays no punctuation at all is becoming acceptable.
The correct capitalization for the sentence is: Susan asked, "Have you read Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town'?"
Punctuation
A semicolon looks like ;
to emphasize the importance of a word or phrase
Increasing a company's market capitalization
The number of shares is multiplied by the price of each share
Since there is nothing following, none of them.
A period
a comma following the word as. IE. As well as,
Increasing a company´s market capitalization
add a comma after the semicolon.