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A "run-on" sentence: Two sentences that have no conjunction between them that are put together as one sentence either with a comma instead of a period or with no punctuation at all. ...He always c...

Normally adverbs are not hyphenated. In the case of full-time and part-time, Merriam- Webster lists the adverb form hyphenated. So it is ...He works full-time in our office. ...She is going to try...

When the words after yes and no "echo" the words of the question, use a comma. ...Q Did you go with her? ...A Yes, I did. ...Q Were you the only one there? ...A No, I was not the only one t...

When you are using parens for the insertion of a blurb -- e.g., (indicating) -- the rule is as follows: When the information inside the parens is the entire thought, it is capped, and the punctuat...

There are some words that you just have to hear in context to know the correct punctuation. Such is the case with the word again. If the word again begins a sentence, it is a conjunctive adverb, ...

Just a quick note to get some terminology cleared up: The dash in formal English is a long mark, called the "em" dash, that is flush against the word on either side. In court reporting, back in th...

When a year is interrupted by a word or two, the English rule says to write out the number in words. That is always the fallback position. However, as always in reporting, numbers written in words ...

A sequential reference is a number that is part of a series of numbers, which usually follows the word that designates what the number is referring to. We consider a number to be "sequential" when ...

There is one space after a period and a colon when you are using a variable font; there are two spaces after a period and colon when you are using a monofont. In reporting, we generally use a monof...