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... you tell our audience
about the sport? Here you see the benefit of the direct-address comma. Without it, the reader
thinks I know Mort is the beginning of the sentence and then lapses into confusion. ... always determine whether you
need a comma, but in general the longer the introduction, the more likely you’ll need a comma.
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Cindy, on the other hand, checked the phone...
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they’re.
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They (S)/lapped (V). The action here is lapped, which unites nicely with they. Completeness
rules!
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incomplete. The reader is waiting to hear something about the cow. The way the sentence
reads ... 4-1:
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letter with
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and run-on
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... New York 10027, in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper East
Side. Commas separate the day from the year, the whole date from the rest of the sen-
tence, and each part of the address (the house number ... line
of the address ends and the next begins and between the city and state, which is
standard practice. If the sentence continues after the address, insert a comma
after...
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... the front of
other words, thereby changing the meaning. Most prefixes attach without hyphens, but a
couple (self-, for example) tend to appear with hyphens.
As with other punctuation marks, the ... raise?
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Restlessly Brad pondered the pepperoni question as...
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... meaning it is.
ߜ Their/there/they’re: The first shows possession (the birds grasped seeds in
their beaks). The second is a location (don’t go there). The third is a contraction
meaning they are.
ߜ ... Whose/who’s: The first shows possession (the bird whose beak is longest). The
second is a contraction meaning who is.
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ߜ Their/there/they’re: The first shows possession (the birds grasped seeds in
their beaks). The second is a location (don’t go there). The third is a contraction
meaning they are.
ߜ ... to keep
quiet.
A. their. The sentence expresses possession, so you want the first choice. The second there
is location, and the third means they are. If you plug they are into th...
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The subject/verb pair is the heart and soul of the ... pairs form a closed circle: The thought they express is complete.
That’s the quality you want, because otherwise your reader echoes the outlaw who,
with his head in the no...
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plete. Make sure that the sentence foll...
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... count, 99 .99 per-
cent of the apostrophes I see in all sorts of official spots.
Plus, despite the fact that bagels are extremely delicious,
they don’t deserve a capital letter. Sigh. Such are the ... (Chapter 6). Tucked into
Chapter 9 are the basics of capitalization. If all these
details fry your brain, feel free to refresh yourself with
a bagel or two.
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