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When someone says the words quote or unquote or quote/unquote, they should be surrounded by punctuation, AND the word or words that follow should still be quoted. There is no rule in the literature...

When you are trying to decide whether to hyphenate something, try this: ...It is a large green bug that.... It is a bug. What kind of bug? It is a green bug. What kind of green bug? It is a green...

Anymore, one word, means "no longer" or "from this time forward." ...will not do that anymore... ...do not see him anymore... Any more, two words, means "any or anything additional." ...do not n...

So we are working on the idea that many times an element needs commas around it in the sentence but that this does not necessarily mean that element is "nonessential" or "isn't necessary to the mea...

So comma rules fall into these two categories: Every time you use a comma, you are either separating two elements that should not bump up against each other, or you are using a pair of commas to su...

No matter how many rules you know for commas, every one of those uses for the comma fits into one of two categories: 1. You are using a comma to separate two elements. You are using the comma to p...

...Ray Charles-inspired arrangement... ...Ray Charles-inspired and -motivated arrangement... ...John Andrews-led department... ...John Andrews-led and -directed committee... When the proper name ...

When so means "so that" or "in order that" and implies the reason for doing something, it starts a dependent clause. That clause takes punctuation depending upon where it is in the sentence. When ...

If you followed the conversation on the previous blogs on the word so, you know that a conjunctive adverb needs a period of semicolon in front of it when it starts a new sentence. And that is the k...