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English Punctuation Failures Posted by on Feb 4, 2019

We really don’t devote as much space in this blog to the little things. And by little things I mean periods, commas, quotation marks, question marks, and exclamation marks. Yet, we use those little dashes, dots, and curlicues every day. I didn’t even mention the ellipsis marks, parenthesis, colons, and semi-colons (there’s a reason for…

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Possessing the Apostrophe Posted by on Feb 2, 2017

The misuse of an apostrophe drives me crazy. Seriously, I have been known to scream out loud when I see signs like the one pictured. Let’s explain the apostrophe and, hopefully, take steps to make this world a saner place. An apostrophe is a punctuation mark used to denote either possession, or the omission of…

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Punctuation Makes the Difference! Posted by on Apr 5, 2012

I recently saw the above joke floating around* Facebook and it of course got me thinking about punctuation.  In a previous post I addressed the names of punctuation marks in English, but I did not discuss their usage.  So, that is what we will be covering today! Punctuation marks constitute the system of symbols that…

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