Tag: punctuation
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Every Literary Holiday You Can Celebrate This Year
Updated with 2020 dates and even more literary holidays you can celebrate this year!
Every Way You Can Correctly Use a Question Mark
Yes, I wrote an entire blog post about how to use a question mark and it wasn’t a waste of my time. Because, in truth, we all are afraid to ask our friends and peers…
For Real?! How You Can Correctly Use the Interrobang
When it comes to punctuation marks, the interrobang has by far the coolest name. But like its function, the word interrobang came from a merging of two words based on its two roles within a…
7 Correct Ways to Use the Ampersand
In this day and age when emojis and memes are an integral part of virtual communication, it’s tempting to write with symbols instead of words. Just because it’s more fun doesn’t mean it’s accurate. Yes,…
3 Ways to Use Ellipses . . . Correctly
If punctuation had personality, the period would be the logical one, the comma calculated, the semi-colon the rambler and the colon attention-grabbing. And the ellipsis? That’s our mysterious one. What is the ellipsis holding back?…
Are Split Infinitives Grammatically Correct?
Is it really okay to intentionally split an infinitive? That all depends on how you feel after reading the previous sentence.
Hyphens, En Dashes, Em Dashes — And How to Use Them
Hyphens, en dashes, em dashes — oh my! Let’s get the three versions of the dash straight once and for all.