For many, commas are a hard nut to crack, but they don’t have to get into our nerves at all. Tech people may compare computers to human beings, while, in language, commas are also just like shelves that keep books from being a cluttered mess. Today, we’re going to discuss one of the most commonly …
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Some people would say that speaking is more difficult than writing, while others claim the other way around. The most notorious concerns related to writing challenges revolve around the punctuation system, especially commas. And thus, this meanwhile suggests that probing on the nooks and crannies of how commas operate should also be the best solution. …
If there’s anything worse than spelling, it should be the punctuation system. And, among all the punctuation marks, the comma seems to be the most notorious offender other than the semicolon and the colon. To make matters even worse in our discussion today, let’s mix the comma rules with another set of perplexing punctuation marks, …
What could be scarier than opening your fridge and not finding anything more edible than ice cubes at midnight? It sure is…deciding whether to place a comma before legal abbreviations at the end of company names. I know you would agree because this should be the main reason why you’re here, so welcome to our …
Punctuation marks serve as the reader’s traffic signals in a metropolitan sheet that is congested with textual characters. But other than that, these tiny and seemingly insignificant symbols are also responsible for setting the tonality and the rhythm of the text. One of the most frequently asked questions about punctuation marks is related to the …
Welcome, dear Linguaholic! Today, we will discuss the good and bad results of our actions toward others. Oops, sorry that’s “karma.” What I meant was the one without the r-sound in the middle, “comma.” Commas are notorious for savagely annoying many students and office workers alike, not to mention natives and non-native English users. Ambiguous …
The topic today is related to the phrase “per usual,” a common expression used in “business talks.” Business communication is generally expected to be more formal and polite than casual conversations. As time went by, though, the need for convenience has also reformed the formalistic nature of business language, giving birth to some go-to expressions …
The hustles and bustles of everyday life are demanding enough to make us ignore some of the littlest things that actually matter. I’m referring to the speck-of-dust symbols in the world of writing, the commas. Let’s try to have a grasp of its appropriate usage before another minute sentence element, the Latin abbreviation “etc.” …
The world is a battlefield and language is the weapon that we use every single day to fight an invisible war. Knowing the right words to use and applying them in the proper context facilitate the success of any written or spoken language. Some of the hardest words to use and explain are those that …