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Ever feel like punctuation marks are secretly judging you? Like they’re sitting there on the page, silently mocking your every misplaced comma and unnecessary exclamation point? Well, you’re not alone! And if there’s one punctuation mark that’s practically oozing with smug superiority, it’s the semicolon. Yep, that little half-comma, half-period hybrid is like the punctuation …

One of the hardest things about writing is knowing whether you are using the correct word in different contexts. For instance, some notorious homonyms trip up people regularly. Some famous examples are “your” and “you’re;” “their,” “they’re,” and “there;” and “to,” “too,” and “two.” On the other hand, some words can be hard to use …

At least once in our lifetime, punctuation marks have tripped us up. Some punctuation marks may be pretty easy to use, but others might just be trickier like semicolons, colons, and commas. Commas may not seem that threatening in our ordinary reading and writing days. They do become a burden, though, when they appear in …

Economic development induces the need for technological and business advancements. These inevitable, nonetheless exponential, progressions have dramatically affected most, if not all fields of disciplines including linguistics. Morphological truncation or word shortening has been consistently on par with communication agent developments such as mobile phones and computers. While this process is already tricky, it is …

Symbols as unthreatening and innocent-looking as commas do have the ability to make any person flinch at least an inch when writing. To add insult to the broken leg, we may also get anxious with the confusing nature of adverbs masquerading as conjunctions. As cringy (or cringey) as these topics may be, we cannot run …

Writing may arguably be one of the most creative, albeit tedious, language-related activities. Although writing standards seem far less rigid in the digital world, the academic and professional fields require otherwise. Punctuations and cohesive devices alike do have the ability to make us feel confused, nonetheless anxious. As an attempt to help in the mentioned …

According to Wikipedia, the word “and” is one of the five most commonly used words in the English language. That’s not surprising. “And” can do a lot of things, and for some of those things, you’ll need commas. Generally speaking, though, commas usually appear before the word “and” rather than after “and.” If you’d like …

Writing in English may sometimes put us at the end of our wits. We may occasionally wish to just become walking dictionaries so we won’t run out of lexical resources. Words with minute differences in spelling and pronunciation often get us stuck in a spider’s web because we may be prompted to consult either Mr. …

Have you ever been in doubt about where to put sneaky commas in sentences? And, have you mistakenly thought of a word belonging to one part of speech when, in fact, it doesn’t? Writing may seem to be one of the most agonizing tasks for most people, except for experts in the field of course. …