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Hyphenated Adjectives
Several of our subscribers have written to ask us to address the use of hyphens like the ones in the following six sentences. Can you...
Capitalization: Proper vs. Common Nouns and Adjectives
The rules governing capitalization in sentences—as opposed to in titles or headings (which we address in another article on this site)—seem simple at first glance:...
Using the Ellipsis
The ellipsis is used to indicate the omission of words in the middle of a quoted sentence or the omission of sentences within a quoted...
Using a Comma before And in a Series
Writers frequently wonder whether a comma should go before the conjunction and in a list of three or more items. Despite the fact that not all style...
Punctuating with Quotation Marks: Part 1
Each of these sentences contains an error involving the punctuation near the closing quotation marks. The suspect told the arresting officer, “I was nowhere near...