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Sentence Fragments
By Naval History & Heritage Command from Washington, DC, USA CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons Can you identify the object in the picture? Sure, it’s...
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Run-On Sentences
By František Chalupa (1828 - 1887), via Wikimedia Commons Forgive the hyperbole, but a run-on sentence is a train wreck–nasty and wrenching like in the image above. On an early morning in November of...
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Comma Usage: Connector and Separator
Daniel Schwen, GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/), via Wikimedia Commons “A comma is just a coupler.” “What’s that? A thing...
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Use a Semicolon to Save the Semicolon
The semicolon is dying a slow death. The blue droopy line in the graph above is from Google Ngram Viewer–a very cool off-shoot of Google Books. Based on the books already digitized, the Ngram Viewer...
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