As you can imagine, we see thousands of documents weekly at ProofreadNOW. We're cataloging a huge collection of contextual errors as we solve more and more problems for our clients.
Posted by Phil Jamieson Dec 4, 2013 5:30:00 AM
As you can imagine, we see thousands of documents weekly at ProofreadNOW. We're cataloging a huge collection of contextual errors as we solve more and more problems for our clients.
Topics: numbers, quotation marks, punctuation, abbreviations
Posted by Phil Jamieson Apr 10, 2013 5:30:00 AM
From The Handbook of Good English by Edward D. Johnson.
Topics: punctuation
Posted by Phil Jamieson Nov 13, 2012 2:30:00 PM
Topics: punctuation, using a colon
Posted by Phil Jamieson Oct 9, 2012 5:30:00 AM
While many people may not know what an appositive is, clients use them often in the documents we see on our server. This week's post is on the appositive and how to use it. We use as our guide the venerable Chicago Manual of Style.
Topics: punctuation, appositives
Posted by Phil Jamieson Sep 18, 2012 5:30:00 AM
Topics: punctuation, question mark
Posted by Phil Jamieson Sep 13, 2012 5:30:00 AM
Topics: possessives, punctuation, grammar
Posted by Conni Eversull Jul 10, 2012 5:30:00 AM
This week, I thought I'd share answers to some questions our grammar experts have received and answered.
Topics: quotation marks, punctuation
Posted by Julie DeSilva Jun 26, 2012 5:30:00 AM
It's an unusual water ski, no one knows much about it is an example of the so-called comma fault--using a comma to connect two independent clauses. The comma is not a connector; it is a separator. The semicolon, however, can function as both a connector and a separator, and at the same time: It's an unusual water ski; no one knows much about it. If we use a comma, then we have to supply a connector--that is, a conjunction such as and: It's an unusual water ski, and no one knows much about it.
Topics: parallel structure, parallelism, punctuation, conjunctions
Posted by Julie DeSilva Jun 5, 2012 6:30:00 AM
If I had only one day left to live, I would live it in my tenth-grade math class, because it would seem like infinity. If numbers do the same to you, fear not: you can master them by knowing the rules.
Topics: numbers, punctuation
Posted by Phil Jamieson Apr 3, 2012 5:30:00 AM
Punctuation and Spacing with Abbreviations (from simple to not-so-simple)
Topics: using spaces in abbreviations, punctuation, abbreviations