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  Good Grammar: If You Won’t Use It, Who Will?
  Marsha Sramek simplifies grammar in the user-friendly "Great Grammar Book."
  by missbobetier / on Mar 5, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “punctuation”

 

• Would that be the 1920s?

  
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  Keeping up with the times and spotting fashion trends? That’s not exactly what the editors at Yahoo! Shine are doing right now. They’re nearly a century late with advice on how to dress for work in the 1920s: That’s pretty much the dumbest use of an apostrophe that I’ve ever seen. The apostrophe ...
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• So, it’s really NOT Abercrombie & Fitch?

  
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  Do the editors for Yahoo! Shine know something we don’t? Is Abercrombie & Fitch really not the name of the apparel store? Those little quotation marks really threw me. Maybe they indicate that the caption refers to a movie or a book or a TV show, and not a store. Or maybe I’ve been wrong all these years. ...
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• How many principals are there?

  
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  As far as I know, schools have only one principal. If that’s true, why did the writer for Yahoo! Shine imply that a school in Virginia has more than one principal? I guess if there are two principals, and they sit in the principals’ office, one of them must be the principal principal. Filed under: ...
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• The singularity of Mother’s Day

  
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  Q: Which is correct, Mother’s Day or Mothers’ Day? I have a customer who wants to use the name as an imprint on promotional gifts for the holiday. I think of Mother’s Day as singular possessive, my mother, but in this case is it correct? A: We also think it’s Mother’s Day, and so do the six standard ...
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• Orajel: What’s it really called?

  
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  The oral gel that you thought was called Orajel is really called something else. At least that’s what these quotation marks on Yahoo! News implies: Filed under: Punctuation , Quotation Marks Tagged: editing , incorrect punctuation , misplaced quotation mark , proofreading , Punctuation , punctuation ...
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• More Answers to Questions About Commas

  
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  Here are three recent questions from readers about the use of commas, along with my responses. 1. Can you tell me why there should be a comma in this sentence: “Such programs will also reduce operations costs and indemnity payments, and improve communications between employer and employee.” It seems like there ...
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• Punctuation as Words (Slash Slang)

  
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  Anne Curzan of the University of Michigan recently wrote about a nearly unheard of linguistic...
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• Splitting up a nonprofit

  
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  Is there a nonprofit organization that might help the folks working at the keyboards at Yahoo! News ? Maybe the Internet giant would accept free proofreading services if a nonprofit suggests it: Filed under: Hyphens , Misspellings , Punctuation , Subject-Verb Agreement , Verbs Tagged: bad spelling , ...
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• Grammar 101: Punctuation Inside or Outside of Quotation Marks?

  
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  When learning a new language, there are so many things to keep in mind. You have to make sure you’re using the right words. You have to make sure you’re putting them in the right order. You have to make sure that your verbs are being conjugated correctly. And you have to make sure that you are putting your ...
  2 weeks ago

• Let us eat, Jane

  
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  Sorry* to be so adolescent about major news items, but for the foreseeable future, this is going to come to mind when the prescience of Our Founding Fathers is mentioned: Jamestowns colonists resorted to cannibalism during the "starving time" winter of 1609-10, archaeologists confirmed** Wednesday. In ...
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• When did become OK to drop the comma after a state?

  
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  In the past week or so I have seen numerous constructions like this headline and lead sentence ("Erik Loomis argues that the reason we dont see more tragedies like West, Texas is because the US has outsourced industries to places like Bangladesh..."). Should there not be a comma after "Texas" in that headline and ...
  3 weeks ago

• What if?

  
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  In this world of emails and texting, sometimes I feel the need for different types of punctuation when I want to get a certain “tone” across.  Since words can be misunderstood so easily, it might be time for new punctuation marks to help us communicate better as a society. What if we had something like [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Zero Punctuation: Luigis Mansion: Dark Moon

  
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  This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Luigis Mansion: Dark Moon . View Video
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• Save $50 on Mediabistro’s Grammar and Punctuation Course

  
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  Grammar mistakes — we’ve all made them. Get a refresher on the basics in Mediabistro’s Grammar and Punctuation course, available in New York starting May 1 and  online starting May 13. Learn the rules that matter most, navigate different style guides, and start seeing immediate results in your copy. Save ...
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• 7 Cases for Inserting or Omitting Commas

  
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  Here are discussions of seven types of situations in which the presence or absence of a comma depends on various factors. 1. Word Function Whether a comma follows a word sometimes depends on the function of the word. For example, when now is employed at the head of a sentence to refer to the present time, ...
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• Songs of Love & Grammar (& %*# - :@; etc.)*

  
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  From James Harbecks book Songs of Love & Grammar : Dim innuendos A sweet musician in a bar said, "Boy, I think youre #." I said, "Girl, youre a ♮, but I dont want to harp." She said, "Well, heres the key so you can get into my ♭." The rest of it I cant repeat, so Ill conclude at that. ...
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• Moves mimics stars?

  
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  Did you read this on yahoo.com ? Did you notice that the writer tried to tell us that some teen’s moves are like some NBA stars — not like NBA stars’ moves, but like the actual athletes themselves? And did you notice that the writer didn’t know that moves is plural and mimics , the verb, isn’t? ...
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• Thief fullversion games download

  
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  Thief In the third installment of the Thief series, master Thief Garrett is contacted by Keeper Artemus with a mission to steal two valuable artifacts. At the same time, Garrett learns about a prophecy: the coming of a Dark Age. He embarks upon a journey to unravel a mystery that threatens the existence of the order ...
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• A Shock to the System

  
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  Holy !@#$ and WOW! Man do I suck at grammar. I just finished an extraordinary book by Brian Shawver titled ‘The Language Of Fiction: A Writer’s Stylebook’ that deals with, what is probably, some of the most boring, yet more prominent, aspects of creative writing: grammar, punctuation, syntax, and ...
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• Zero Punctuation: Lego City Undercover

  
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  This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Lego City Undercover . View Video
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