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When the witness repeats the question or part of the question and then answers it, use a question mark after the question and let the rest of the answer stand on its own. ...Q Was it after 10:00...

I have been asked for a little more explanation on the last post. A dependent clause is dependent because it has a word out in the front of it that "introduces" it. ...He left. (a sentence, an in...

You all know this rule: Cardinal Rule No. 1: Put a comma before a coordinate conjunction when it is followed by an independent subject and verb. But be careful of the dependent clause that LOOKS L...

Punctuation Precision A 20-hour course It’s BACK! You have been asking for a repeat of this class since we gave it last year. So here it is. This course is offered as an alternative to the “...

When the word "dollars" is said and there are numbers above a million with the figure and the word, the dollar sign is used, and the combination is considered to be a unit and uses no hyphen. (NOTE...

Number form in some instances depends upon the answer to the question "How verbatim do you want to be?" If the witness says "...a hundred fifteen...," whether you put the number into words or figu...

Facebook had a couple of interesting questions/examples on "so." SO I thought it would be good to take a look at them. This is my answer to the questions about the word "so" in the FB sentence belo...

There is a little-known dash rule that is called the "summary dash." It is used when a sentence has concluded and a clause refers back to the subject of that sentence. The clause is really an appos...

These two words are hyphenated in the dictionary as adjectives and adverbs. However, as we know, the adjective form in the dictionary is the direct adjective form, i.e., the form right in front of ...