Browsing: Punctuation
Have you heard about the required order of adjectives in English? A few years ago, a paragraph from Mark Forsyth’s…
A listener named Al recently wrote in about our segment on the word “reenter.” Sometimes it’s written with a hyphen, and sometimes…
The name of the coronavirus disease that emerged in late 2019 is not capitalized because most disease names aren’t unless…
Last week, our editor at Quick and Dirty Tips had a question about hyphens as she was working on a…
A lot of people get confused about when to use hyphens when writing ages, and I think it’s because sometimes…
Mike wrote in with a question that I’ve always wondered about too. What’s up with the apostrophe in “Ruth’s Chris…
We recently got a question about commas from one of our listeners, Benjamin Wolfe. Benjamin asked this: “Have you done…
Two weeks ago, we talked about comma splices—errors that happen when you join two main clauses with just a comma–but…
When people think of punctuation marks, it is usually the handy comma, the imperious colon, or the overly excited…