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Oh, yes, it was. The many hugs were the best part. Great to see old friends; great to meet new people. Thanks for your hard work, Doug. Tami, you are going to have a great year! We are behind you...

Drove about 12 miles today to my stepdaughter's house for a family get-together. "Handicap Parking" at a church: Nope. It is handicapped parking. "Oversize Load" on the back of a truck: Nope. It ...

Lots of people have the idea that a prepositional phrase at the beginning of a sentence needs a comma depending on how many words it has in it. (First, let's be clear that we are talking here abou...

I was recently asked whether I would recommend a semicolon before "Is that fair?" just as it is before "Is that right?" The answer is that right, true, and correct in any of their various forms are...

When two prepositional phrases come at the beginning of a sentence, without regard to how long or short each is, there is usually a comma after the second one. ...At the beginning of the night, we...

This is a sentence I was asked about on Facebook. And I have it correctly punctuated here. Have there been any major stressful events in the last year that you can think of -- divorce? someone, a ...

We so often see the apostrophe used in the wrong place. Here I want to talk about just one of those instances. When the word the is used in front of a surname, the name HAS to be plural. We do no...

This is an issue that is VERY misunderstood. I am copying here the section from my book, beginning on page 401 in the chapter on "Where NOT to Put Punctuation." Normally, I do not copy an entire se...

The rule says to put a question mark at the end of a sentence that asks a question. In reporting, our questions are not always straightforward. Attorneys add things -- explanations, clarifications,...