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Question about space in sentence

Posted: 14 Oct 2016, 17:20
by BookBuffoonery
Can you please help me understand why there should be a space between the word "time" and the period at the end of the following sentence.

The writing style of this book is confusing at times, switching the perspective of who is telling the story at any given time .

Re: Question about space in sentence

Posted: 14 Oct 2016, 22:12
by gali
BookBuffoonery wrote:Can you please help me understand why there should be a space between the word "time" and the period at the end of the following sentence.

The writing style of this book is confusing at times, switching the perspective of who is telling the story at any given time .
There shouldn't be a space there.

Re: Question about space in sentence

Posted: 15 Oct 2016, 10:21
by bookowlie
BookBuffoonery wrote:Can you please help me understand why there should be a space between the word "time" and the period at the end of the following sentence.

The writing style of this book is confusing at times, switching the perspective of who is telling the story at any given time .
There should not be a space between the last word in a sentence and the period at the end of that sentence. Are you referring to your recent review? I just took a look at it and there is the same error - a space between the word time (the last word in the sentence) and the period.

Re: Question about space in sentence

Posted: 15 Oct 2016, 15:44
by Fran
The dreaded gremlins strike again :doh:

Re: Question about space in sentence

Posted: 16 Oct 2016, 01:28
by gali
Fran wrote:The dreaded gremlins strike again :doh:
:lol:

Re: Question about space in sentence

Posted: 16 Oct 2016, 18:03
by BookBuffoonery
bookowlie wrote:
BookBuffoonery wrote:Can you please help me understand why there should be a space between the word "time" and the period at the end of the following sentence.

The writing style of this book is confusing at times, switching the perspective of who is telling the story at any given time .
There should not be a space between the last word in a sentence and the period at the end of that sentence. Are you referring to your recent review? I just took a look at it and there is the same error - a space between the word time (the last word in the sentence) and the period.
Yes, that's what I'm referring to. In the feedback for my review, I was told that there should be a space there. I was confused. :?

Re: Question about space in sentence

Posted: 16 Oct 2016, 18:45
by bookowlie
As I previously posted, I took a look at your recent review from the link on your post. Your review contains an error - a space between the word and the period. So...it's appropriate that the feedback would mention the error. The only thing I can think of is one of the following:

1) there was a typo and the editor meant to say there should not be a space
2) you may have misunderstood the way the comment was worded

Either way, looking at the published review, the space you have in the review is an error so it was appropriate for someone to mention it.