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A question from a reporter today is in regard to placing a comma before a quote when the quote surrounds a word that is being defined. So let's look at the rule for quoting and the rule for the com...

So often we see whereas and although incorrectly punctuated with a semicolon in front and a comma after as in ...was seen with him; although, she did not... ...was seen with him; whereas, she did ...

Here is one of the questions asked about the intro prepositional phrase and the comma, and here is my answer. We were talking about a short prepositional phrase at the beginning of the sentence tha...

We said earlier that a short prepositional phrase at the beginning of a sentence that is just a simple modifier does NOT take a comma. Let's look at what prepositional phrases do take a comma. RUL...

When there are two parts to the sentence, one that makes a statement (...my question is...) and one that asks a question (...where are you going...), it is the one at the end that determines the te...

So let’s talk prepositional phrases at the beginning of a sentence. What if this prepositional phrase is just a simple modifier, a simple adverb modifier? ...On Monday we will begin the new progr...