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However: Alpha or Omega?
When I was in my upper 30s, working with the Palm Beach Post, I came across a piece written by the copy chief that had the...
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Jul 1, 20153 min read
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The comma: common but crucial
Preventive Gerontologist, Dr. Arnold Bretsky, recommends this … That’s the beginning of a sentence from a newspaper advertorial urging...
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Nov 28, 20143 min read
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“This, that” or “This and that”?
Give me an and, the grammar cheerleader in me wants to shout. disjointed You’d think people had an allergy to and. These days, this...
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Aug 16, 20143 min read
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Cut the comma
Do you ever read a newspaper story, an advertisement, an essay or some other piece of literature and feel as though you’re being jerked...
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Jul 8, 20142 min read
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The Uncommon Comma
No Commoners Here My all-time favorite cartoon appeared in The New Yorker a few decades ago. A woman in a long formal gown and...
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May 28, 20141 min read
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