I need help with these sentences.?

Question

I am writing a paper and I am submitting this paper through writing excellence that is offered to us. It helps to tell us what we have done wrong in our papers. First and formost, I was terrible in English in high school and so all this is hard for me. It is telling me on two different sentences that I need to put comma's before the conjuctions. What and where is the conjuctions in these sentences and do I need to use a semicolon instead of a comma? Here are the sentences...

1. Not only could a person be overloaded but his-her skills may not be enhanced enough for that part of the project.

2.Yet someone could come along and say “that looks like you just threw that together”.

Also when I use " and they are used at the end of a sentence,do I put my punctuation mark before or after the "? Is it like this
".
or
."
Thanks in advance or any information.

Answer 1

1. Not only could a person be overloaded, but his/her skills may not be enhanced enough for that part of the project.

2.Yet someone could come along and say, “that looks like you just threw that together”.

Also when I use " and they are used at the end of a sentence,do I put my punctuation mark before or after the "? Is it like this ". This is a style question, editors can come down on either side of it. The best guide is to do it the way your textbook or required reading books do it.
Semicolons would not be correct in either of your samples.

Answer 2

I can help you with a couple, but one of them....eh, not really sure.
Number 1: Needs a comma between over-loaded and but. Should look like this: Not only could a person be overloaded, but his/her skills may not be enhanced enough for that part of the project.
Number 2: This is the one of which I am a little unsure. I would write it this way: Yet someone could come along and say, "That looks like you just threw that together". Another option might be: Yet, someone could come along and say, "That looks like you just threw that together". Maybe some other poster will have other information that may help clarify that for you.
Number 3: I am sure of this one. The punctuation mark goes after the quotation marks.
Am I correct in assuming that these are the sentences you are given to punctuate, and that punctuation is all that is required? If that is so, do not alter the wording of the sentences.

Good luck.

Answer 3

Here is my offering:
1. Not only could a person be overloaded, but his-her skills may not be enhanced enough for that part of the project.

2.Yet someone could come along and say, “That looks like you just threw that together."

Also when I use " and they are used at the end of a sentence,do I put my punctuation mark before or after the "? Is it like this
".
or
I think the period comes before the quotation marks: ."

The rules for question marks are as follows:

If the quotation is a question, the question mark is on the inside:

John asked, "Have you heard from Joe?"

But, if the whole question is a quotation, it's like this:

Did you say, "Meet me at eight o'clock"?

Answer 4

1. Not only could a person be overloaded, but their skills may not be enhanced enough for that part of the project.

2. Yet, someone could come along and say, "That looks like you just threw that together."

Always place quotation marks after the ?.

Answer 5

Try this. I changed a few things. Good luck!

1. Not only could a person be overloaded, but his/her skills may not be DEVELOPED enough for that part of the project.

2.Yet someone could come along and say, “That looks like you just threw that together.”

Answer 6

LOL... ok.. first of all, all the question marks, periods and such, goes before the end of the quotes. for example:
"Johnny ate an apple."
and as for your sentences:
1. Not only could a person be overloaded but his-her skills may not be enhanced enough for that part of the project.
It should be: Not only could a person be overloaded but THEIR skills may not be enhanced enough for the project.
2.Yet someone could come along and say “that looks like you just threw that together”.
Instead, it should be: Yet someone could come up and say,
"That looks like you threw it together."

Answer 7

1. not only could a person be overloaded, but .....
2 yet someonce could come along and say, "that looks like you just threw that together."
3: punctuation marks go inside of the quotes unless you are quoting a book or someting and need to mark youre source for example if you were quoting to kill a mocking bird it would be: " Atticus finch was the best shot in all of maycomb county" (Lee 65). The number is the page #.

Answer 8

Not only could a person be overloaded, but his or her skills may not be enhanced enough for that part of the project.

Yet someone could come along and say, “that looks like you just threw that together.”

It's like this ."

Answer 9

Second sentence is fine. The first is ok, but pick either the his or her. Don't use both.

Answer 10

If one can learn by mistakes, you are learning a lot, really.