Reading good prose should be like listening to a well-constructed piece of music: it should have rhythm; it should have cadences; in short, it should have style. In that sentence I have used the four ...

April 27, 2022 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Colons and semicolons are the indie rock of punctuation marks. They’re not mainstream-popular like the period.

Do you know how to use a semicolon correctly? Even if you think you do, are you sure? That odd cross between a colon and a comma may be the most frequently misused and misunderstood punctuation mark ...

Semicolons are often used to join parts of a sentence together to establish variety and link related ideas. Unlike a colon, which separates an independent clause from descriptive information, a ...

Last year, students went on immersion trips to New Orleans, Louisiana; Puebla, Mexico; Yuba City, Arizona; and Mumbai, India. Seniors often realize in spring that they have one requirement remaining ...

The semicolon is used to indicate a pause, usually between two main clauses, that needs to be more pronounced than the pause of a comma. The hybrid between a colon and a comma, it is often considered ...

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Writers and editors don’t always agree; really, they don’t. There was a time, years ago, when I was an editor at the now defunct Times-Union that I made some changes — necessary, I’m sure — to a story ...

So a recent memo I wrote was reviewed and in the flurry of red ink, this sentence was corrected by my manager (some words have been changed):<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip ...