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The (incomplete) Punctuation FAQ Hopefully this will grow in time, as other questions are asked and answered, and other people add to this. Hopefully (!) some kind moderator or adminstrator will mark this thread as sticky. INTRODUCTION In grammar, the rules are forged in a delicate balance...

The rules of punctuation are confusing for a number of reasons, primarily: (1) the British rules are different from the American rules; (2) the rules are set by publishers, not by history, and different publishers may choose to set different standards, and (3) the rules change much, much faster...

Ooh goody - a grammatical gray area. People disagree about this one. I believe that TECHNICALLY, since "I am going to dinner" is a clause, it follows that the clause should be separated from the rest of the text, and so TECHNICALLY, a comma is required. I think that in the somewhat similar...

Basically, you always need a comma to separate clauses, unless the sentence is so short that misreading would be impossible. If I give you the start of a sentence: "The wind howled and ..." you don't know if there is another verb coming, or something else (like a clause). The comma helps to...

I wouldn't add any punctuation. I would add one word in order to make a proper noun clause. "The very first thing I remember was that there was a car stopped underneath a yellow flashing light." Cheers John.

Hi, the second entry is more informative than the first; it’s interesting. 1 The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar 2 Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1 The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar paragraph (n.) A distinct section of a piece of writing, beginning on a new, and...

Hi, If my child was marked down because she used a capital letter for words in a spelling test, I’d be angry with the teacher. When I went to school, my spelling exercises tested for spelling not style. However, if your child is a high school student and if the teacher was marking hard, then...