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There is a comma before but when there is an independent subject and verb after. ...was here, but she could not stay long... ...was here but could not stay long... ...wrote her, but I wasn't sure...

Just a reminder: We have an idiom turn into. It means "to become." ...When he drinks, he turns into a monster... ...He turned into someone I don't even recognize... Since this is true, we have t...

I saw this in an article online today. Where does the apostrophe go? If you remember that everything in front of the apostrophe has to be a word, you know that it cannot be each others' because th...

When i.e. or e.g. are used, they introduce a renaming of what was just said. How they are punctuated depends upon where they are in the sentence and what follows them. When they are at the end of ...

The use of the word were in this construction is fading from our language as people do not understand the correctness of it. This construction is called "contrary-to-fact" subjunctive. It is a sit...

The words for the directions -- north, south, east, west -- and any "combined" forms of those are capped when they represent a "recognized" geographical area. There are those we would all recognize...

This question keeps coming up. When you have a coordinate conjunction -- and, but, or, nor -- there is never a single comma by itself after it. You might want to surround something after a coordina...

I think there are two ways to do this: ...one, one thousand; two, one thousand; three, one thousand... or ...one/one thousand, two/one thousand, three/one thousand... Either way gives the right...

These parties to the lawsuit -- plaintiff, defendant, defense -- are not capped in general context in the transcript. ...spoke with plaintiff on the phone... ...sent to the defense... ...saw the d...