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Tag Archives: Grammar
How to Use Hyphens & Dashes
Looking through the marketing copy of countless companies — including household-name brands — I see one error more than any other: ignorance over the use of hyphens. It’s a tiny and much-neglected mark but for fully rounded and accurate writing … Continue reading
Posted in Copywriting, Language Matters Tagged Copywriting, Dashes, Grammar, Guides, Hyphens, Language, OED, Punctuation 4 Comments
Colons & Semicolons – How to Use Them
Colons and semicolons are troublemakers. Not content with the clarity of being a single marking they have the nerve to mix and match other, more straightforward punctuation marks. You can be happily making your way through a sentence when suddenly … Continue reading
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Abbreviations – Mr. or Mr?
The rules about abbreviations are very simple. Or very complicated, depending on how closely you want to look at it! The great myth about English is that its usage is all bound up in watertight rules that 95% of people … Continue reading
Costly Copy Errors – How to Avoid the most Common Mistakes
Turn up for business with your flies undone or your skirt tucked into the back of your underwear and you shouldn’t expect to win any customers. Yet allowing basic and avoidable errors into your business writing is just as embarrassing … Continue reading