Month: September 2009

There is only one use of quotation marks (or quotes, speech marks, or inverted commas, as they are often called):…

The dash has only one major use: To use in pairs to separate a strong interruption from the rest of…

There are two main uses of the hyphen: In writing compound words that would be ambiguous, hard to read or…

The apostrophe is the most misused punctuation mark in the English language by far, but this should not be the…

The semicolon has two similar major uses: To join two complete sentences into a single written sentence when the two…

The ellipsis (…), sometimes called the suspension or omission marks, has three uses: to show that some material has been…

The colon has two uses: To indicate that what follows it is an explanation or elaboration of what precedes it…

The comma is used very frequently but is also often used incorrectly. There are four distinct uses of the comma:…