By Judy Vorfeld Will you break some of the sacred top ten Web Design Rules for Success if you create clumpy clusters of yellow text parked on an orange background, surrounded by bouncing hippos or cattle wearing shoes? It depends. Some frivolity might be appropriate for Vegetarian Shoes, […]
Read more →By Judy Vorfeld Welcome to the world of suspended hyphens. When one or more hyphenated adjectives** has a common basic element and this element is shown only with the last term, insert a suspending hyphen after each of the incomplete adjectives to indicate a relationship with the last term. What does […]
Read more →By Judy Vorfeld The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition (6.9), says, “Periods and commas precede closing quotation marks, whether double or single.” Examples: She said, “I’ll be there soon.” … “When you are finished,” he said, “we’ll leave.” CMS also states that there are several exceptions […]
Read more →By Judy Vorfeld Have you ever been confused about when to use an apostrophe with possessives? And where the apostrophe goes? Unfortunately, not all possessives use apostrophes. This includes the personal pronouns “its,” “theirs,” and “yours.” Since they are the most frequently misunderstood, let’s tackle them. The wonderful […]
Read more →By Judy Vorfeld Are you one of those people who hates punctuation? Or perhaps you love it. So much that you may, possibly, overuse it????? Especially the exclamation mark!!!! Read on, and maybe you’ll change your mind or shift your view … Exclamations: sharp or sudden utterance that […]
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