The semicolon is a much-misused, often maligned, but elegant and useful piece of punctuation.
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Did you know today is National Punctuation Day?
Brush up on your apostrophes with our previous podcasts:
Whose day is it anyway?
More than one, more than one’s
It’s not all the same to us
And check out the National Punctuation Day site.
There’s even a baking contest!
The interrobang — a combination of a question mark and an exclamation point — is a little-used punctuation mark created for questions that have a little extra oomph.
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Why “Veterans Day” and “Presidents Day” are written without apostrophes.
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We’ll help you sort out when to use an apostrophes in possessives and plurals.
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We’ll help you sort out when to use an apostrophe in “it’s,” and when not to. It’s a common error, but it has an easy fix.
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