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Places & Dates

Places & Dates

Use commas to set apart geographical names and to separate items in dates, except for between the month and the day.

Comma Abuse

Comma Abuse

Finally, don’t abuse the poor comma. It hasn’t done anything to you. Well, it may have caused you some stress from time to time, but you should not abuse it. You should definitely not...

Tips from the Professor

Tips from the Professor

Students often struggle with commas when it comes to using them correctly with the coordinating conjunctions—and, but, or, for, nor, so, and yet. The important thing to remember is that you have to keep in...

Possessives

Possessives

Using Apostrophes to Make Words Possessive Beginning writers sometimes mistakenly add apostrophes to make words plural, but this is not how the apostrophe is used; the apostrophe is used to show possession or ownership....

Plural Possessives

Plural Possessives

Making plural words possessive can be confusing at times because we so often add an s to a noun to make it plural. All of those s’s can be a little overwhelming. But the...

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