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The word "court." standing alone, is capped when it refers to the judge, one trial judge, and the judge alone. Otherwise, it is not capped. ...The Court will rule on the motion. ...The court will...

A frequent statement on FB by those asking for punctuation help: "The attorney keeps using run-on sentences." Just a note of clarification: Run-on sentences are created by bad punctuation. They ca...

We purists do not use "c" for "see" and "4" for "for" in text messaging. We certainly do not use "wud" for "would." And the list goes on. How many of us put in all punctuation in texting? Well, of ...

We add a prefix to a word to make a solid word unless there is already a word with that spelling and a different meaning. This occurs most often with the prefix "re-." ...She promises to work to r...

Military times are expressed as four digits whether or not they are said that way. ...It was 0732 when I left the barracks. ...The call came in at 0900 hours. Happy punctuating! Margie

There seem to be so many variations in the way everyone wants to do the singular possessive: apostrophe alone sometimes, apostrophe s sometimes. Does the word end in s? How is it pronounced? The r...

We are in the era of "searchable" documents. An attorney looking for the time of day is not likely to put in "ten" or "four" in his search. The English rules of the 1990s for times don't work anymo...

The names of the code books are capped. ...It is a part of the Penal Code. ...I am referring to the Business and Professions Code Section 3546. Happy punctuating! Margie

A prepositional phrase beginning with "of" that represents where a person works or where he is from and that follows a proper noun takes commas around it. Other prepositional phrases do not take th...