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The word the is capped as a part of a name if the company/group includes it as part of its formal name. You just have to do the research to see what the organization does. Happy punctuating! Margie

When the word so means "therefore," it starts a new sentence and takes a semicolon or period in front of it and no single comma after it because it is only one syllable. ...We left early; so I miss...

Just a reminder that, when using direct address, titles are capped and words that are just designations are not capped. ...I want to know, Officer, where you were. ...Show us, Detective, how you di...

Thank you; thank you to the person that caught this in yesterday's blog. It said Generally there is a comma before a conjunctive adverb. When it has more than one syllable, it has a comma after i...

Sometimes an adverb gets pulled out to the beginning of a sentence to form a "bridge" to the sentence before it. It becomes a linking word for the two sentences and shows a relationship between the...

When someone uses letters to indicate items, either uppercase or lowercase letters are correct; however, uppercase letters are probably more readable and less likely to get lost in the flow of the ...

First, when the situation is that the attorney has asked a question, using question word order and then does not just keep quiet and get his answer but goes on to clarify, restate, et cetera, we ha...

When elements that have commas around them also have commas within them, the commas around them change to dashes. ...If it has misspellings -- whether they be medications, medical terms, or names ...

When hyphenating a prefix to a compound noun that is separate words and is being used as an adjective, hyphenate the prefix to the first word of the compound noun. ...pre-social security days... ....