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Showing posts with label punctuation marks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label punctuation marks. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Why American writer Dinty Moore is all praise for Indian speakers and writers of English

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I have been reading an interesting and highly original book ( pictured ) by author, editor, and writing coach Dinty Moore . Moore write...
Friday, April 10, 2015

All hail the Comma Queen!

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When a copy editor of the Salon e-zine chats up the copy editor of New Yorker magazine who also happens to have published a book about her ...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Yes, a comma can save lives

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On July 23, Twitter users were shocked to read this tweet from AP: The Associated Press          ✔ @ AP ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

An ode to punctuation

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From The Commits Chronicle archives:   COMMATOSE PROSE Ajay Kurpad (Class of 2011) thought he and the rest of the batch were losing th...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

How good is your grammar?

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Find out by taking these interesting and instructive grammar tests: 1. From the Daily Writing Tips blog 20 Questions 2. From the Daily ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Everything you always wanted to know about how to use punctuation marks (but didn't know whom to ask)

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There appears to be some confusion regarding the use of hyphens. For starters, many people are unsure about how a hyphen (-) is different fr...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

The problem with quotation marks...

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...is that many people still don't know how to use them in a running quote (one that runs into two or more paragraphs). Take this exam...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

When someone dies, we prefer to talk about only the good things they did

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But when you are a journalist, it may be necessary to remove your blinkers, and also remove the blinkers from the eyes of the public. Las...