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Rather than thinking of the dash as being used for an "interruption," it will serve you better to frame that rule as "A dash is used for a sentence that got started and did not get finished -- brok...

I am doing a five-hour English review on February 7 and 8. This course is designed for those taking certification exams but is open to anyone who wants to improve English skills. We will cover gram...

When so is said at the end of a thought, it seems to say "So that is my explanation; that is my reason." The word so can mean "for that reason" or "therefore" when it is used as a conjunction. In ...

This and that should NOT be used to express "to what extent." It is NOT ever correct to say ...It was not that bad. ...I didn't expect it to be this easy. Instead, you want the word so, which is ...

Incident is an individual occurrence; incidence is the rate of occurrence. We seem to get into trouble in the plural. ...There was an incident last night that required an ambulance. ...There were ...

Is it my parent's house or my parents' house? Except for a child custody matter, where one parent's rights might be called into question, I am going to say that we use this word in the plural. We d...

...he is Colombian; he is NOT Columbian. If the coffee is from Colombia, it is Colombian coffee. Happy punctuating! Margie

The rule says to add standard prefixes and suffixes to the word to form a solid word. ...postaccident investigation... ...subpar performance... ...manlike features... ...praiseworthy performance....

Yesterday we determined that the verb form in a dependent clause is determined by the word the clause modifies, which sets us up for a bit of a dilemma in this sentence: ...John is one of the men ...