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Punctuation Tips

Dashes, Colons, and Commas
April 19, 2012 | Episode #318 | Punctuation
Where Did the @ Symbol Come From?
January 5, 2012 | Episode #305 | Punctuation
Quotation Marks with Periods and Commas
August 25, 2011 | Episode #289 | Punctuation
Compound Subjects
August 4, 2011 | Episode #287 | General Grammar | Punctuation
Did Oxford Drop the Oxford Comma?
July 8, 2011 | Episode #283 | Punctuation
Commas With Participial Phrases
April 7, 2011 | Episode #270 | Punctuation
Punctuating Questions
February 24, 2011 | Episode #264 | General Grammar | Punctuation
Commas with Adjectives
February 10, 2011 | Episode #262 | Punctuation
Should You Ever Put a Space Before a Period?
January 6, 2011 | Episode #257 | Punctuation
Serial Comma
December 30, 2010 | Episode #256 | Punctuation
How to Make Family Names Plural
December 23, 2010 | Episode #255 | General Grammar | Punctuation | General
Why Doesn’t “Veterans Day” Have an Apostrophe?
November 11, 2010 | Episode #249 | General Grammar | Punctuation
Colons
September 23, 2010 | Episode #241 | Punctuation
Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces
July 29, 2010 | Episode #233 | Punctuation
Comma Splice
June 24, 2010 | Episode #228 | Punctuation
Ellipses
June 10, 2010 | Episode #225 | Punctuation
Dashes, Parentheses, and Commas
May 21, 2010 | Episode #222 | Punctuation
Daylight-Saving Time
March 11, 2010 | Episode #212 | Punctuation
Ellipses Spurned
September 25, 2009 | Episode #190 | Punctuation
How to Use Semicolons
September 22, 2009 | Episode #189 | Punctuation
How Many Spaces After A Period?
July 31, 2009 | Episode #181 | Punctuation
Do Rhetorical Questions Need a Question Mark?
July 10, 2009 | Episode #178 | Punctuation
Troublesome Contractions (e.g., I'd've)
May 1, 2009 | Episode #168 | Punctuation
Dashes Versus Colons
April 23, 2009 | Episode #167 | Punctuation | Style
When to Use a Comma with “Too”
February 13, 2009 | Episode #157 | Punctuation
Sentence Length
April 25, 2008 | Episode #104 | General Grammar | Punctuation | Style
Hyphens
February 1, 2008 | Episode #93 | General Grammar | Punctuation
Apostrophes
January 18, 2008 | Episode #92 | General Grammar | Punctuation
Writing Dates
December 28, 2007 | Episode #89 | Punctuation | Style
Used to Versus Use to, and Other Listener Questions
December 7, 2007 | Episode #87 | General Grammar | Punctuation | Word Choice | Style