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The word or works just like the word and. In a series when the conjunction, the word or, appears between each member of the series, use no commas. ...tan or blue or silver... ...25 or 28 or 31......

When an attorney has asked a compound question ...Do you remember whether Ray was there?... and the response he gets is "No," there is another question to be asked. ..."No," you don't remember? ...

An interesting question was asked over on FB this mornng. I am stealing a bit from Jim Barker's forum. ..."Are you dating someone?" asked Scott casually. ..."Ashley was absolutely not involved," s...

A "predicate nominative" is a noun or pronoun that follows a condition verb and renames the subject. ...My mom is an engineer... ...Her name is the same as mine... ...She became a lawyer... Somet...

The punctuation of these words occasioned a rather heated discussion on FB that contained a number of misconceptions about the language in general. First, a note about the "-ly" issue. Adverbs th...

Sometimes attorneys use a clause that starts with if as if it were a complete sentence. ...If you would turn to the second page... ...If you would take a look at this document... This is just "ba...

Whether you want the dash inside or outside quotation marks when there is an interruption is really a matter of personal preference. When the quote is interrupted, you might decide to put the dash...

A participle, the -ing or -ed form of the verb that is being used as an adjective, that comes right after the word it modifies is punctuated based on "essential/nonessential." If the participle is ...

We continue with this dilemma, sometimes stretching to "look good." Here is a sentence from an article about the golf tournament over the weekend: ...The fact that so many cheered was confirmation...