I'm French, I think I can speak/write English reasonably well, but I still have to correct myself sometimes over punctuations rules, yes. The rule I was taught is "every punctuation character that has a part over the writing line has a space before it".
I'm French, I think I can speak/write English reasonably well, but I still have to correct myself sometimes over punctuations rules, yes. The rule I was taught is "every punctuation character that has a part over the writing line has a space before it".
I've never seen that, and I have a bunch of French friends I communicate with in writing in a regular basis.
I'm French, and I see it everywhere. You won't notice it if your friends are fluent in English, only beginners do that.
Fair enough, I asked because I naturally write "word!" without knowing proper English syntax and thought it was a naive reflex everybody would have.