Tag Archives: punctuation

Two Spaces Forward, One Back

One of my pet peeves is when people are writing and double-space at the end of a sentence. This in fact was a rule once upon a time, when typewriters used monospaced type. Slate’s Farhad Manjoo wrote a screed about this … Continue reading

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Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage Tips

I’m going to add some links here based on what I see people doing in this term’s revised essays. First up, Grammar Girl has some tips for how to use colons correctly in a sentence. Please read up on them. … Continue reading

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