Comma splices are considered an error in English grammar, but they are easy to spot and easy to fix. With the help of the infographic, learn to smooth your writing’s flow and add clarity by joining clauses, identifying a run on sentence and ridding your writing of those dreaded comma splices.
Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation (illustrated)
Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound.
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How to Write Clearly
Looking for a refreshing and easy route to good writing? You'll find it here -- the meaning approach. This common sense approach speaks clearly to writers from young teens to adults. Read and use the insights as you see fit in your own writing. There are no boring drills and assignments. *How to link sentences to keep the readers with you. *How following the story thread is better than "encyclopedia" fact writing. *How to solve most comma problems with grammar rules. *How to write with verbs instead of nouns to perk up your prose.
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Teachers use this book to teach mathematics vocabulary in pre-algebra and algebra classes. It goes well beyond the textbook addition, subtraction, etc. words. It discusses turn-around words, comma placement, parentheses, etc. Great foundation for word problems.
Who knew a stylebook could be so much fun? For lovers of language, Lapsing Into a Comma is a sensible and very funny guide to the technicalities of writing and copy editing. Author Bill Walsh, chief copy editor in the business section of the Washington Post, humorously discusses the changing rules of proper print style in the information age. Is it "e-mail" or "email"? According to established grammatical rules, it should be e-mail, but in common practice, we often use email (which should be pronounced "uhmail," but we all know not to do that). Therefore, email is OK.
