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Tag Archives: comma
Ouch! That comma splices!
Lesson: how to correctly join independent clauses Take a look at this sentence. The Martians want to look their best, they wear their green jumpsuits. There is something wrong here. (And it’s not that the Martians think jumpsuits are high … Continue reading
Posted in copy editing, grammar, punctuation
Tagged comma, comma splice, coordinating conjunction, grammar, punctuation, semicolon, sentence structure
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Parallel Sentence Structure, Or “Getting All Piet Mondrian On Your Writing”
Lesson: improving your writing by using parallelism In grammar, a series of related words, phrases, or clauses is considered to be parallel when each item in the series has a similar structure. This could mean, for example, nouns listed with … Continue reading
Posted in grammar, style issues
Tagged comma, common grammar mistakes, grammar, humor, narwhal, parallel structure, Piet Mondrian, semantics, suffix
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One little endian, two little endians: Formatting dates across the globe
The proper way to format dates in America is to write month, day, comma, year. Like this: May 27, 1950 However, as you are no doubt aware, this is the proper way to format a date in America. Different countries … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago Manual of Style, comma, dates, punctuation
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