A 5- to 10-Minute Primer on Suspensive Hyphenation
A hyphen is a hyphen, right? Well, not exactly. Hyphens are commonly used to join compound words like full-time, part-time,…
Punctuation
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Your Complete Guide to Comma Rules
If you’ve heard that joke about a panda bear entering a restaurant and eating, shooting, and leaving, you know that…
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How To Properly Use a Semicolon
Why did the semicolon break up with the period? Because they had nothing in comma. If there is any post…
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How To Use Ellipses
One of the more commonly misused and overused punctuation marks is the ellipsis. I’ve encountered far too many maddening late-night…
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Using the Interrobang Is a Sign of Lazy Writing
I consider myself pretty well-versed in the latest goings-on in the writing world, so it came as quite a revelation…
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What Is a Comma Splice and Why Should You Care?
Before I embarked on the glamorous, jewel-encrusted life of a freelance writer, I taught college English for close to a…
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Why You Should Use Exclamation Points Sparingly!
My sister and I recently had the following conversation via text: This chat highlights the dependency many of us have…
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What Is a Vocative Comma?
In addition to greeting a lot of people throughout my day – if I venture outside, being a freelance writer who works from…
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Apostrophes… and More
Don’t you just love an apostrophe? It’s a great tool for content writers who like taking shortcuts, as exhibited by these first…
