I've come to notice that comma splices are common with beginner writers. A comma splice occurs when two independent clauses are separated by a...
(1) For situations where you include dialogue tags in the middle or end of dialogue, when do you use a comma after the dialogue tag when it's...
So, I've got a little bit of a confusion with the following sentence as to what punctuation I would need (if any); "It was the strangest army...
I'm one of those people who can spot run-on sentences and comma splices in other people's books and is driven crazy by them, but in my own writing...
How in the world do I punctuate a story within a story within the original story? And it runs for several chapters.
Re-reading my story and found a couple places where the punctuation gets a little dodgy. Can you guys help me with this? Sentence 1: She had...
Hello, any advice appreciated. I'm not sure how to punctuate a character who suddenly stops saying something mid-word, and then carries on with...
Here's my sentence at current (excuse the snippet but I don't think context matters): Ishmael’s gut said shoot him now. I'm probably just being...
Currently writing my first story to feature a text message conversation in it, and it got me thinking about how on earth one is supposed to...
Hi guys, this may seem like a strange one but if a character was to talk to himself or have a thought to himself would you still use speech...
I am moving this to a another forum, Novels. for critique.
I am unsure how to punctuate dialogue when it is interrupted by the thought of another character. So the omniscient narrator is the one doing the...
As far as I can tell, the only source using "diaeresis" is The New Yorker. It's this weird little umlaut thing that I can't reproduce using this...
Hello everyone, I am a new member and I wanted to ask for advice. During a writing class in high school and even now in my general...
Can you tolerate this penetrating light? or is it my role to distract you? How do I correctly punctuate this line? Maybe the first '?' Should go,...
The following are examples from Bryan Garner's Modern American Usage Style Manual. In the phrasal-adjectives section, he doesn't explain why the...
Do you agree with my insertion and omission of the comma in my two examples below based on my explanations in brackets? Am I correct on both...
Again, without recasting, do the two examples below look correct with regard to suspensive hyphenation? This, of course, is nonfiction. I think...
a 2%–7% annual savings an industry with annual revenues of $150 million–$200 million I think my edits above (for a business report) are much...
I'm editing a piece for a court transcript, and the sentence reads as follows: "My brother, Tom, and I jotted down the plate number." If I stick...
Separate names with a comma.
