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Does the punctuation go inside or out? Is there a cap or not? ...A (Indicating.) ...A Right here (indicating). The English rule: If the whole thought is inside the parens, the first word i...

My last 20-hour punctuation class of the year will begin on August 13. We will complete this class just before the CEU deadline on September 30. It is divided into ten two-hour sessions, meeting on...

In formal English the use of brackets indicates an insertion into the document by the author of that document. As reporting developed, we had for many years the use of only a typewriter, which did ...

...I went to the Nelson house. OR ...I went to the Nelsons' house. Each of these is correct to say in English. Obviously, the second one has to deal with the possessive whereas the first one does ...

When words like "I believe" and "I think" begin a sentence, they are functioning as the subject and verb in the sentence and take no punctuation. ...I believe he called in a little before 3:00. .....

There is a place where the rule for the colon and the rule for the dash overlap, in other words, a place where each one is correct. ...There are several things to consider: money outlay, time spen...

When dealing with file extensions that are said by themselves, there is a lot of variation in the way they are said. We say "JAY-PEG" and "BIT-MAP." For the sake of consistency, it is probably best...

To say that the "attorney talks in run-on's" is really not a correct statement. A run-on is created by bad punctuation. No one can "say" a run-on. Using no punctuation or a comma between two sente...

Just checking in to remind you that the punctuation class is starting this Saturday. This is your chance to put all of those rules into some sort of order so that they hang together better -- witho...