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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
The plural possessive of "attorney general" puts the plural S on "attorney" but the 'S on "general."
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
When 2 or more people share possession of something, only the last one gets apostrophe+S. #cybermonday
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
No colon after the word "including."
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
Put a space on either side of an ellipsis.
Like ... this
Not like...this
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
No spaces around em dashes in book, scientific & academic publishing (B, S, A). Spaces around an em dash in news writing (N).
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
Use single quotation marks for quotes within quotes, not to call out words being discussed.
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
Only adjectives that modify a noun independently get commas between them.
A kind, gentle, sweet girl
but
A bright red wingtip shoe
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
Do not double space after a colon.
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
When two hyphenated terms share a word, you can drop the shared word and keep the hyphen.
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
An en dash can connect two hyphenated or multi-word terms.
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
Put spaces between initials? It's up to you.
W.E.B. DuBois
or
W. E. B. DuBois
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
Put a period inside parentheses only if the parentheses contain a complete, separate sentence.
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
No hyphen in Xmas.
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
Hyphenate "wait-list" as a verb but not as a noun.
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
Independent clauses joined by a conjunction are normally separated by a comma.
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
Should you set off "too," "either" or "also" with commas? Use your best judgment.
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The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
To make "each other" possessive, put the apostrophe before the S.
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The 12 Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
The preferred way to shorten "because" uses an apostrophe: 'cause. Avoid "cuz."
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The 12 Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
Don't put a period after a question mark, even if the question mark is in quote marks.
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The 12 Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
If you use "between" before a number range, do not use a dash between the numbers. Use "and."
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No commas around "Jr." in most news media & book publishing. In academic writing (A) use commas.
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With a hyphen, a V-8 is an engine. Without a hyphen, it's a vegetable juice.
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No quotation marks around a word or term introduced with "so-called."
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The 12 Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"
In American English, a period or comma always goes inside the quotation marks. Always.
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@junecasagrande Hi! Well, for rhetoricals like "Who knows," I always include a question mark and wish that practice were more universal, but I was thinking of when people write sentences like, "I'm not sure if I should rest or take a jog?" There are some other examples at https://www.reddit.com/r/grammar/comments/ghe16k/comment/fq8qaru/, but the answer in the reply goes over my head.
Of course, the flip side of this is when people tweet and send direct messages where they're asking questions yet omit the question mark! 🙄
@jotaemei I'm with you: I like question marks in "Who knows?" and wish they were more universal. (I dislike: Guess what?)
"I'm not sure if I should rest or take a jog?" is a stretch. The intention is clearly a statement.
Seems like the Reddit person is saying: When these statements can be interpreted as abbreviated questions, a q mark might be OK.
As for sentences that are declarative in form: "You like cats." In many cases, adding a question mark just makes them a question. Perfectly OK.
Handy test: If you can rearrange the order of the adjectives without making the meaning weird, use commas between them: kind, gentle, sweet girl = sweet, kind, gentle girl. Otherwise, no commas: red wingtip bright shoes ≠ bright red wingtip shoes.
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