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Interesting error this morning in an article on the Internet -- ..."This Obama did not demure from the fact that mass incarceration and sexual violation in prison that have become such accepted fe...

Exhibit numbers are always in figures -- even at the beginning of a sentence. The word "exhibit" is capped in front of the number. The word "number" is abbreviated as "No."; the plural is "Nos." ....

The word "though," when it is alone in the middle of the sentence, is surrounded by commas. ...I think he knew, though, that this was the end. ...He was standing, though, near the door. At the en...

Because "people" has a generic meaning, it should be capped when it is a party to the lawsuit. ...The People will prove that these people are guilty. ...The People rest. Happy punctuating! Margie

Generally speaking, a proper noun which is being used as a verb adds the endings with an apostrophe. ...We FedEx'd it on Friday. ...He FedEx's all his packages. ...We will be FedEx'ing it tomorrow...

Periods and commas go inside quotes without exception; colons and semicolons go outside quotes without exception. Question marks go inside or outside quotes depending on where the question is bein...

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...

Many of you have expressed a desire for a more comprehensive seminar on punctuation -- more in depth, so to speak. So I have put together a webinar for this fall that becomes a "course" in punctuat...