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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...

What were you planning to do with a few weekends in May and June? Grammar, you say? Great! I have the perfect plan for you. Put the dates on your calendar -- a 15-hour class on grammar, grammar, gr...

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 someone says the word "aught" meaning "zero," it is spelled with an "a." It is an old word that means "zero." In the early 1900s, many people referenced those first years as "aught six," trans...

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... ....

A little grammar for the day. Remember that "but" has to connect two equal things. Thus "I couldn't help but think..." and "I couldn't help but feel..." just doesn't work. ...I couldn't help thin...