Here, in the west coast of the peninsula people often drive to visit their friends in Kelantan in the east coast. [...] Quotes/punctuation The trend is towards minimising punctuation marks Examples Apostrophe The primary functions of the apostrophe are to show possessive case and it is also used to indicate contractions in words, such as can’t and it’s (which we avoid in written English) * The Philippines’ military presence * The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) oil and gas production * master’s degree Double quotatio. [...] Single quotation marks for level 2 (quote within a “The attempt to ‘bribe’ the immigration officers quote) failed.” Ellipsis (...) Among the generals… (space) Aung Hlang is • No spacing at end of first word or between considered the most brutal full stops En dash (–) No one – not even the president – realised what was • Spaced before and after happening. [...] the United States, the United Kingdom • am, pm, AD, BC, CE, etc • Initials of names: Steven CM Wong, Mohd, Abd Acronyms If there is only one reference to a body with an acronym, do not put the acronym behind the name. [...] Note: It’s just ministers NOT cabinet ministers – ministers by default are members of the cabinet China/Taipei/Hong Kong To be used solely in reference to the People’s Republic of China.
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- 1.0 UK spelling c me u a a s s s re s c 2.0 Capitalisationlower case 1
- Professor JR Howard 1
- 2.2 Political job titles have initial caps only when the title is next to the name in whatever order 1
- Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin 1
- 7.0 Metric system 8.0 Singularplural 2
- 120kph 50km 100ha 10m 20cm Political parties societies clubs collective nouns companies governments and other bodies all singular Nouns that are plural in form but singular in meaning 2
- News 2
- Politics 2
- Wages of sin 2
- Mathematics 2
- 9.0. Quotespunctuation 2
- The trend is towards minimising punctuation marks 2
- 9.0 Hyphens need to hyphenate ending in -ly 3
- No adverbs compound 3
- 10.0 Thatwhich That which that which Which that 3