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Commas-Periods: Inside or Outside Quotation Marks?

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 […]

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Principal-Principle

When is a Principal a Principle? Or is it? By Judy Vorfeld Need help dis­cov­er­ing the dif­fer­ences between these two words? They cause a lot of con­fu­sion! Principal means first in author­ity; main par­tic­i­pant, or amount of a debt minus the inter­est. It can be a noun or an adjec­tive. Examples: He is […]

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Maybe-May be

By Judy Vorfeld Maybe you’ve won­dered about how to use the word “maybe.” It’s not some­thing that gets a lot of atten­tion from the gram­mar police, but it’s still good to know how to write it prop­erly. Okay. “Maybe,” the com­pound word, is an adverb mean­ing “per­haps” or […]

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Me, Myself, and I

The Confusing World of Reflexive Pronouns By Judy Vorfeld Have you ever won­dered if you should say, “Jason and myself…” or “Myself and Jason…” or “Jason and I…” or “Me and Jason…” or “Jason and me…? Wonder no more. We have the answers. “Myself” is a reflex­ive pronoun, […]

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Lie-Lay

By Judy Vorfeld Have you ever seen peo­ple get into a heated argu­ment over the right use of the words “lay” and “lie”? It hap­pens. LAY is a verb mean­ing “to put” or “to place,” and needs an object to com­plete its mean­ing. (Lay, laid, lay­ing.) Examples She lay […]

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