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• Semicolons

  Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 00:13 in english, english usage, grammar, punctuation, semicolon

  If you are unsure about how to use a semicolon, have a look at Gary Olson’s Punctuation Made Simple, which points to two major scenarios: (1) the semi-colon as a connector of two sentences, (2) ...

• Commas

  Posted on Saturday June 28th, 2008 at 07:44 in commas, english, grammar, punctuation, reference

  A fellow blogger has suggested an excellent resource for people who have trouble with commas. (And who doesn’t make the occasional comma mistake?) Rules for Comma Usage has explanations, exercis...