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One of the places where there is a lot of push-back against using the dash is this: ...Q The car on the left -- what color was it? ...Q The restaurant where you were eating -- is that one ...

The second rule for using a dash is for a complete sentence that is dropped into the middle of another complete sentence. ...I am looking at the article that -- it is the first one on the page -- ...

Bill and I are in Falmouth, MA, this morning on Cape Cod, enjoying a little down time. The Massachusetts reporting group had a great convention this weekend, and I was privileged to be a part of it...

The word then is an adverb when it means "next" or "at that time." When it is an adverb, it does not take punctuation. ...We were then seen by a different doctor. ...I then noticed the spot it had...

This question has popped up in seminars over the last several months. My answer is to put it into the transcript as "2012." I know. You are yelling, "But that is not verbatim!" First of all, we ar...

So we had a discussion over on FB about "so" -- again! As you all know, I want us to punctuate according to the grammar that is going on in the sentence. I believe with my heart and soul that punc...

The direction words -- "north," "south," "east," and "west" -- are capped when they refer to a recognized region and not capped when they simply indicate a direction.In CA, for example, we have "No...

When "as well as" is used in a negative context, the first "as" should be changed to "so." ...I did as well as expected. ...I did not do so well as expected. ...He reads as well as John. ...He do...

I have been missing for a while here -- traveling and traveling with a short stop at the hospital in Indy. Very sore leg turned into "I cannot walk!" Turns out it was trochanteric bursitis. I am mu...