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There is one space after a period and a colon when you are using a variable font; there are two spaces after a period and colon when you are using a monofont. In reporting, we generally use a monof...

If someone is reading from a document and you do NOT have that document to look at when you are preparing your transcript, you are not going to insert any quotes. There are a couple of ways to hand...

There is a rule for commas called the "comma of omission." There are two parts to the rule.1. When two sentences are parallel and have no conjunction between them, they are joined by a semicolon. W...

When there are two parts to a sentence and one is a statement and the other is a question, it is the one at the end that determines the terminal punctuation. ...What he wants to know is where were...

There is no English rule that says a sentence cannot begin with and, but, or, nor. I truly believe the idea that this is a rule starts in elementary school, where we all hooked a bunch of sentences...

Putting aside the psychiatric term, you want effect if you have a noun and affect if you have a verb EXCEPT... If you can substitute "bring about" or "make happen" with a verb, it is effect. ...T...

One of the places where there is a lot of push-back against using the dash is this: ...Q The car on the left -- what color was it? ...Q The restaurant where you were eating -- is that one ...

The second rule for using a dash is for a complete sentence that is dropped into the middle of another complete sentence. ...I am looking at the article that -- it is the first one on the page -- ...

Bill and I are in Falmouth, MA, this morning on Cape Cod, enjoying a little down time. The Massachusetts reporting group had a great convention this weekend, and I was privileged to be a part of it...