Archives for the 'Punctuation' Category
- All About Ellipses
- A Quiz About Hyphenating Phrasal Adjectives
- 4 Rules for Setting Designations off with Commas
- A Quiz About Parenthetical Punctuation
- A Hyphenation Quiz
- Punctuation Is Powerful
- Punctuation Saves Lives!
- 10 Websites and Blogs of Punctuation Protectors
- How to Punctuate References to Dates and Times
- Hyphenation in Compound Nouns
- 7 Types of Hyphenation That May Seem Wrong But Aren’t
- 10 Types of Hyphenation Errors
- A 10-Point Comma Quiz
- How to Punctuate Introductory Phrases
- 5 Cases of Mistaken Meaning Cured by a Comma
- Logical Punctuation Isn’t the Logical Choice
- 5 Sentences Saved by Em Dashes
- 10 Comma Cases in Which More Is More
- All Hail the Interrobang! (What the?!)
- 15 Purposes for Parentheses
- A Yes-and-No Answer About Hyphenating Phrases
- 5 Ways to Repair Misused Em Dashes
- Proper Use of The Semicolon
- Proper Use of The Colon
- 5 Ways to Fix the Comma Splice
- 5 Calls for a Comma Before “Because”
- 8 Rules About Punctuation and Quotation Marks
- Should You Use Accent Marks?
- 7 Tips for Using Suspensive Hyphenation
- Close the Gap on Prefixes and Suffixes
- 7 Tips for Using Hyphens with Adjectives
- 5 Examples of Extraneous Hyphens
- Put Parenthetical Phrases in Their Place
- 5 Common Errors in Punctuating Appositives
- How to Punctuate Quotations
- Use Common Sense for Commas
- 5 Tips to Understand Hyphenated Words
- Compound Modifiers: The Rush to Hyphenate
- How to Add Emphasis to Your Writing
- Parenthetical Phrases
- Whither The Semicolon? Whither The Comma?
- Quotation Marks and Apostrophe S
- The Serial Comma is OK with Me
- Subordinate Clauses and Commas
- How to Use Dashes
- Using the Question Mark
- Comma Before Too?
- Short clauses can take commas
- Period Goes Inside Quotation Marks
- Charles’s Pen and Jesus’ Name
- One Space or Two At the End of a Sentence?
- When to Form a Plural with an Apostrophe
- In Search of a 4-Dot Ellipsis
- Masters Degree or Master’s Degree?
- Does “Mr” Take a Period?
- Tracking a Quotation
- Be Sure to Dot Your is!
- Punctuation Game
- What Does [sic] Mean?
- When and How to Use Brackets
- The Question Mark
- Should You Use Footnotes or Endnotes?
- Praises to the Correct Use of The Semicolon
- Punctuation Errors: American and British Quotation Marks
- Punctuation Errors: Multiple Punctuation Marks
- Punctuation Errors: Apostrophe for Plurals
- Punctuation Errors: The Comma Splice
- Pesky Colons and Semicolons
- Multiple Thoughts in One Sentence
- Punctuation Errors: Quotation Marks for Emphasis
- Use the Right Number of Periods
- Introducing the Comma
- All About Quotation Marks
- Simple sentences, period
- Points of Exclamation
- The Elusive Ellipsis
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