Take the tour ×  Excuse my terrible English knowledge, but I
have been wondering this for some time already: What is correct
for the next phrase?:  And he was there. alone. sad. and
crying...   And he was there. Alone. Sad. And crying...   And he
was there, alone, sad and crying...  On the first and second
cases, I use periods for separating the state of the subject.
For some reason, I like it to give better suspense. Given the
way I am using the periods, should I use Capital letters after
them, or not? These periods are pretty much like commas...  ...
But maybe I am terribly wrong and should never use periods for
such purpose? Should I always follow the third case? Just using
commas?  share|improve this question add comment  2 Answers  up
vote 4 down vote accepted  I would write the first word after
the period in capital case, as you did in the second sentence
you wrote. The general rule of writing a word in capital case
after a period is still valid even if you write a single word
and then a period.  In tho