Apostrophe – uses & misuses

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

Use of italics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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