December 1, 2011
There is almost always some reference to punctuation during our critique sessions – Commas not necessary around that phrase. Place a comma there. It needs quotation marks here. It’s enough to raise my pique When commas interrupt critique Those tiny glyphs invade a page Instill an inner syntax rage And why quotation marks, I ask [...]
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October 27, 2011
I love italics but I didn’t always understand how to use them, that there are rules. According to The Best Little Grammar Book Ever! by Arlene Miller, we should italicize book titles, plays, operas, television series, CDs, and other complete works, but for parts of these works use quotes. In Arlene’s book, a great resource [...]
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