Tag: punctuation
Weird Al’s hilarious grammar lesson: 9m views in 5 days – #WordCrimes video
A grammar intervention If you love decent writing and grammar, this is for you. If you don’t know your “you’re” from “your”, this is for ...
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At last, the serial comma explained!
Serial commas (or Oxford commas) are often fought about. Some always use them, some never. But the answer is, as usual, 'sometimes'! This infographic explains ...
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Infographic: 10 Commandments of Business Writing
These are the 10 Commandments of high quality, engaging, persuasive business writing. We developed these over many years of copywriting and training corporate warriors to ...
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How to write a ‘keeper’ Christmas card
How to write a 'keeper' Christmas card; one to give to special people in your life (clients included) that they won't throw away. Many of ...
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Your duck + 101 Writing Tips… Merry Xmas!
You gave us your most valuable writing tips, we gave them back to you, organised into a beautiful eBook, and donated to Oxfam on your ...
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Using Google to write right
If in doubt about two versions of a phrase or punctuation, Google both (placing inverted commas around your search terms), to see which gets more ...
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Don’t syphon the hyphen: Compound modifiers
Hyphens are very different to dashes - know the difference!
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To space or not two space?
At the end of your sentences, do you hit the space bar once or twice? A debate is raging about this. (Type something now to ...
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Apostrophe Catastrophe
The apostrophe is the most abused, confused punctuation mark of all. Use it incorrectly and this small mark can cause you big embarrassment. Is it ...
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