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I am going to start this topic today and will keep coming back to it over the next weeks. The question is what to do with an element that begins a second sentence after an and or but (or, nor). On...

As long as I have been in this field, I have never been asked this question until recently -- and it has come up at least ten times in the past six months! Weird. What do we do with this? ...I do...

It has been a rough couple of months. I think things have settled down. So my blogs are back. Stay tuned right here for information on "All Things English." Just a quick one here: When transcribin...

The direction words -- "north," "south," "east," and "west" -- are capped when they refer to a recognized region and not capped when they simply indicate a direction.In CA, for example, we have "No...

When "as well as" is used in a negative context, the first "as" should be changed to "so." ...I did as well as expected. ...I did not do so well as expected. ...He reads as well as John. ...He do...

I have been missing for a while here -- traveling and traveling with a short stop at the hospital in Indy. Very sore leg turned into "I cannot walk!" Turns out it was trochanteric bursitis. I am mu...

One last comment on this: We have only two basic ways that we use commas. Every comma we use falls into one of two categories: ONE comma pushes things apart. It is the "separating" comma. It is pu...

All dates are transcribed in figures. When the ordinal is added to a date when said -- ...on May 5th... -- it is not good grammar. It is not correct to say the month and date and add the ordinal t...

Capitalization for the word church is as follows: Cap church when it is part of the title of a church organization. ...went to the First Baptist Church... ...drove past Holy Nativity Episcopal Ch...