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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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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
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 it well.
Its best line:
“I’d like to thank my parents, Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey.”
You kinda need the serial comma there, after Clinton, or it sounds like Bill and Oprah are your parents!
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 the tips apply to engaging business writing, too.
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 hits. If one gets wildly more than the other, it’s probably right.
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
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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