Hyphenated Adjectives
We talk about hyphens in several different articles on this site. One article distinguishes hyphens from en and em dashes. Another talks about open, closed,...
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...
Punctuating with Quotation Marks: Inside or Outside?
With the possible exception of the Oxford/Harvard/serial comma, very few usage issues elicit responses as passionate as the topic of punctuating with quotation marks. American...
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:...
Who or Whom
I hope I am dead and gone when it happens, but I fully realize that one day the word whom will be designated by dictionaries...
