Punctuation and Capitalization

The cover that protects the underside of the engine is called the skid plate or engine splash shield. It helps to guard the engine and other vital components from damage due to debris or road hazards. Regular maintenance of this cover is important to ensure proper protection.

Between the d and v

eg: 'I wish you could've come to the party'

Although I think this is more conversational English, if I was going to write it, I would write it without the contraction.

It depends on the sentence.

If it's a contraction of the words "it is" then there is an apostrophe. (See this sentence for an example)

If it's to indicate possession it doesn't. (Ex: The old coat lost its button.)

Exclamation marks are used to express strong emotions such as excitement, surprise, or urgency. They are also used to convey emphasis or to indicate a command or exhortation. However, it's important not to overuse exclamation marks, as using them too frequently can reduce their impact.

"Give me your hand," she said. This is dialogue and must use quotes.

Yes. It should be--- Reverend Michael Smith.

It is called an interrobang. It is used to denote a sentence that is both an exclamation and a question.

Yes it should. Any word in a title should be capitalized. However, the only acception to this is if the words "a, an, or the" are in the title and are not the first word. Then they are not capitalized.

Yes, you would do that cause you are talking about and to somebody else.

It entirely depends on what your sentence is. Usually there will be no comma, for example:

'This is the happiest day of my life.'

'This was definitely not what I was expecting.'

'This meat is too tough for me to eat.'

In constructions like examples 1 and 2 above, there will be a comma if 'this' is separated from the verb that follows it, for example:

'This, the so-called happiest day of my life, is turning into a disaster.'

'This, which was supposed to be making my life easier, is causing me extra work.'

Remember that a written comma normally corresponds to a spoken pause. Say your sentence aloud and see if you would naturally pause after 'this'. For the constructions illustrated above, note that the commas come in pairs, because they act as parentheses.

As far as computer etiquette, typing in all caps is taken as yelling, excessive emphasis.

Typing with all capitol letters doesn't always mean you are yelling. Sometimes is can state that you are really exited, etc. Although it doesn't necessarily mean that you are yelling most people infer that you are, so always be careful.

A slash (/) is a punctuation symbol commonly used to indicate a variety of relationships, including division, fractions, and website URLs. It can also denote choices or alternatives in a list, and separate words in certain phrases like "and/or".

There is text immediately before the ellipsis... but any following text needs a space before it.

Yes. Words like Mom and Dad should be capitalized when there is no article to go with it (the, my).

Not in that sentence. If you mean "something belonging to the governor", then it should have an apostrophe. If you mean "more than one governor" then it should not. (If you mean something belonging to more than one governor, then it should have one, but it should be after the s instead of before it.)

Popvds likely stands for Publicly Operated Private Vehicle Dispatch System. It is a term used to describe a system where privately-owned vehicles are dispatched through a publicly-operated platform, similar to how rideshare services operate.

Yes, it is correctly written because there are two proper nouns: Jennifer is a name which we have to capitalize; Central Park because it is the name of a specific park (although ideally it should identify the city, even if it the most famous one, in New York City).

An apostrophe "stands in" for missing letters in a contraction.

o'clock is a contraction of "of the clock" and the apostrophe indicates the missing letters.

The state capital with the longest name in the United States is "Oklahoma City," which has 11 letters.

No. That is not how commas are determined to be used. Commas set off a list of things, or they separate certain clauses or phrases from the rest of the sentence.

Example ; "Although Ted had socks, briefs, and tees, he could not find his garters, although, his mother believed, he might have found them had he looked closer."

Well, I'd use a semicolon, and comma; myself. The end sentence being, "Which impact was harder; the first, or the second?"

Alternatively, you could divide the phrase in to two separate sentences. The resulting sentences being, "Which impact was harder? The first, or the second?"

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It should be ---- Cars are expensive; motorcycles are dangerous.