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Em dashes and spaces: AP vs. Chicago

I'm taking another run at yesterday's Q&A. I was apparently wrong about being wrong. I'd been using em dashes correctly all along, if only by accident, since we loosely follow AP...

Do you put spaces around em dashes?

Which is correct? 1. Vendors—including Apple, Google and Microsoft—all...

It’s Punctuation Day. Here — have some more!

Did you know that September 24th, 2012 is Punctuation Day‽  It's also Bluebird of...

Punctuation matters: What does this sentence mean?

What does this sentence mean? Happy birthday to Besse Cooper, the world's oldest person who turned 116 today. a. It's a birthday greeting for Besse Cooper. She is the oldest person in the world and she turned 116 today. b. It's a birthday greeting for Besse Cooper. She is the...

The difference between colons and semicolons

Which is correct? The point of disaster recovery is the same for both large enterprises and _________ need to stay in business. a. SMBs: They b. SMBs; they

Plural of ellipsis?

Which is correct? _________ are often used in a       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend May 29, 2012  12:08 PM Comma confusion Posted by: Ivy Wigmore commas, Oxford comma, punctuation Which is correct?a. The iconic singer Madonna tweeted for the very first...       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend June 10, 2010  12:40 PM Are you ready for advanced punctuation? Posted by: Ivy Wigmore Business writing, CIO, colons and semicolons, grammar, punctuation, video As EnglishTeacherGuy explains in this video, you can get along just fine without colons and semicolons; however, if you really want to impress people, you should learn how to use them properly. Otherwise, just leave them out: using advanced punctuation incorrectly will only undermine your...       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend May 11, 2010  4:27 PM Combining quotation marks with other punctuation Posted by: Ivy Wigmore Business writing, CIO, grammar, punctuation, Quiz, quotation marks and punctuation Which is correct? According to Peter Drucker "there is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a _________ a. customer." b. customer".       1 Comment     RSS Feed     Email a friend November 12, 2009  2:09 PM Semicolons and complex lists Posted by: Ivy Wigmore Business writing, complex lists, conjunctions, grammar, manufacturing, MRP systems, punctuation, Quiz, semicolons Which is correct? An MRP system should satisfy three objectives: ensuring that materials and products are available for production and delivery; maintaining the lowest possible level of ___________ planning manufacturing activities, delivery schedules and purchasing...       2 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend 123NEXT About This Blog Is your grammar as good as your code? Take our daily quiz and brush up your written communication skills! >> READ MORE ABOUT THIS BLOG Browse This Blog’s Tags acronyms and initialisms, adjectives, agreement, a or an, apostrophes, AP style, archaic speech and grammar, archaic words and phrases, Business writing, capitalization, CIO, commas, common grammar errors, commonly confused terms, commonly confused words, commonly misspelled words, commonly misunderstood phrases, commonly misunderstood terms, commonly misused expressions, commonly misused phrases, commonly misused words, common misspellings, compound words, eggcorns, ESL, grammar, grammar wars, hyphenation, less or fewer, me/myself/I, meanings of common expressions, misplaced modifiers, money, numbers, numerals, one word or two, percentages, personal pronouns, plural/singular, pluralization, possessives, pronouns, punctuation, Quiz, sentence structure, spelling, subject-verb agreement, verbs, word choice, word meanings Archives May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 March 2012 October 2011 August 2011 June 2011 May 2011 March 2011 February 2011 December 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 Blog Roll ITKE Community Blog Overheard in the tech blogosphere Our Latest Discovery Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tips Everything Language and Grammar The Word Blog Editage The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks Motivated Grammar Mark Allen (@EditorMark) The Grumpy Grammarian Impertinent remarks Worthless Words for the Day Help Subscribe to Alerts RSS feed of Writing for Business - A Whatis.com Blog hidden modal window Community Blog | About Us | Contact Us | FAQ | Terms of Use | DMCA Policy TechTarget provides enterprise IT professionals with the information they need to perform their jobs - from developing strategy, to making cost-effective IT purchase decisions and managing their organization's IT projects - with its network of technology-specific Web sites, events and magazines. All Rights Reserved, Copyright 1999-2013, TechTarget | Read our Privacy Policy Questions and Answers Index 1 | Questions and Answers Index 2 | IT Topics Index 1 | IT Topics Index 2 | Blogs Index | Blogs Tags