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What do you call three periods in a row? Take your time, we’ll wait . . . The Ellipsis Those three little dots are called...

Apostrophes can be tricky. Sometimes they form possessives. Sometimes they form contractions. Can they ever make something ...

If you stare awhile at the string of characters that a sentence comprises, the squiggles lose all meaning. That humans some...

Any writer who’s spent time in the trenches publishing articles online knows it’s hard to keep a reader’s attention. In fac...

Toward and towards are two acceptable ways of spelling the same preposition. Toward is the preferred spelling in the ...

A flyer can be one of several things: a pamphlet, something that flies, or a device you’d use to twist yarn. Flier is a...

How the Grammar Girl Team Answers All Those Grammar Questions Guest post by Ashley Dodge English is a complex, complicate...

Language is constantly evolving – a fact made especially clear when we take a look at historical documents and note how wri...

People are often surprised to learn that alright is not an accepted spelling of all right . Although the one-word spelling...