by Liz Coursen | Mar 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
A very basic rule. Let’s look at this sentence. Father Andres Simpkinson, will tell us about his missionary work. No! What’s that comma doing there? Here’s another sentence. The sisters, neither of whom liked their eldest sister, drained their...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hi all! I hope we all know that punctuation with quotation marks is very straightforward in American English. There are very straightforward rules, which always include the word always. You always lead with double quotes. If there is quoted material inside the double...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
I am always interested in hyphens. It’s not stretching the truth to say that I actually love hyphens. A hyphen is always worth looking at—even though what should be a hyphen often turns out to be a dash—because a hyphen generally indicates a word in a state of...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’ve been on a creative tear recently, buying domain names left and right, which means I’m getting all sorts of spam from companies that say they’ll write my content (cheap!) or design my new logo (cheap!), but this is the first resume-writing spam...
by Liz Coursen | Feb 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Unbelievable. No wonder the email that introduced me to this website landed in my spam box. At first I thought they were poor, uneducated people from a third-world country, but it turns out that “Whois” says the site is registered in Louisiana. Ahem. The...
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