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• Apostrophe – uses & misuses

  We dealt with the use of apostrophes in an early post called “When do I really need an apostrophe?” In

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• Use of italics

  Most of us are familiar with italics, a slanted typeface that in which the type is slanted to the right:

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• Misuses of the comma

  As we have seen in this blog, commas cause more anguish for writers – beginning, student, and even professional ones

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• Comma use with adjectives and quotations

  We’ve already touched on the topics of comma use with adjectives and with quotations, in the post on the Oxford

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• Comma use with appositives

  We continue our look at comma use with interrupting and parenthetical expressions by focusing on appositives. The term appositive may

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• Commas with parenthetical and transitional expressions

  In our discussion of comma use, we have examined commas with elements like contrasting expressions and direct address. These can

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• Comma use with contrasting expressions and tag questions

  Commas are used to set off phrases that express contrast. We are showing the opposite or alternative position to the

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• Comma use with interjections

  In the previous post, we looked at comma use with direct address, which is the act of directly calling someone

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• Comma use with direct address

  I’ve been focusing a number of blogs on specific uses of punctuation marks, especially of the comma, which is the

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• Semicolons & colons with other graphics

  In recent blog posts, we touched on to marks of punctuation – the semicolon and the colon – that have limited

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