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progressive (3): with always etc
We can use always, continually and similar words with a progressive form to mean 'very often'.
I'm always losing my keys.
Granny's nice. She's always giving people little presents. I'm continually running il1to Paul these days.
That eat's forever getting shut in the bathroom.
This structure is used to talk about things which happen very often (perhaps more often than expected), and which are unexpected or unplanned. Compare:
- When Alice comes to see me, I always meet her at the station.
(a regular, planned arrangement)
I'm always meeting Mrs Bailiffin the supermarket.
(accidental, unplanned meetings)
- When I was a child, we always had picnics on Saturdays in the summer.
(regular, planned)
Her mother was always arranging little surprise picnics and outings.
(unexpected, not regular)
punctuation (1):
full stop, question mark and exclamation mark
sentence division
Full stops (ArnE periods), question marks and exclamation marks (ArnE exclamation points) are used to close sentences. After one of these, a new sentence has a capital letter.
I looked out of the window. It was snowing again.
Why do we try to reach the stars? What is it all for?
They have no right to be in our country! They must leave at once!
We do not normally put full stops, question or exclamation marks before or after grammatically incomplete sentences.
She phoned me as soon as she arrived. (NOT She phoned me. As 860ft as me r2rritJeti.)
In hisjob he has to deal with different kinds ofpeople. (NOT it,. hi3jBb. He has ttJ tlettl with tJifferent kimls ttlpeople.)
Did you understand why I was upset? (NOT Diti YOft ftfttierstr2fttl? Why I wttS ftpset?)
However, sometimes we can emphasise a clause or phrase by separating it with a full stop and capital letter.
People are sleeping out on the streets. In Britain. In the 21st century. Because there are not enough houses.
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2 abbreviations
Full stops can be used after abbreviations (see 2). This is more common in American English than in British English.
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