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I have had recent questions about how to do file extensions when they are said by themselves without the full file name. First, I would say that they should be done consistently. Though I do not ...

Great seeing so many "old" familiar faces at DRA. Wow. It has been a few years. Glad to see you thriving in this wonderful field. There was a recent discussion on numbers and their form within a s...

When words showing measurement, value, distance, amount are used with an s on the end and they are in front of a noun, use an apostrophe s for singular and just an apostrophe for plural. ...one w...

Put a comma before the and because there is an independent subject and verb after the and. ...I was driving northbound on Madison, and I turned left onto Rourke. ...Rachel went to the hospital, an...

There is a comma before but when there is an independent subject and verb after. ...was here, but she could not stay long... ...was here but could not stay long... ...wrote her, but I wasn't sure...

Just a reminder: We have an idiom turn into. It means "to become." ...When he drinks, he turns into a monster... ...He turned into someone I don't even recognize... Since this is true, we have t...

I saw this in an article online today. Where does the apostrophe go? If you remember that everything in front of the apostrophe has to be a word, you know that it cannot be each others' because th...

When i.e. or e.g. are used, they introduce a renaming of what was just said. How they are punctuated depends upon where they are in the sentence and what follows them. When they are at the end of ...

The words for the directions -- north, south, east, west -- and any "combined" forms of those are capped when they represent a "recognized" geographical area. There are those we would all recognize...