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Here is a quick summary of the Miranda Style:
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Apostrophes: Always use ’s with
singular possessive cases (i.e., Elvis’s song).
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Colons:...
Does reading an
article about commas bore you? Yeah, us too. We’ll keep it brief to keep you
from going comma-tose. You’re welcome for the horrible joke.
By definition, a comma is a soft pause
in a sentence....
Thank God for clickbait…
Most dictionaries and website sources say that a
semicolon is “more pronounced than a comma yet less pronounced than that of a
period.” But what does that even mean? Let’s cut...
Admittedly, we might be a bit biased,
but we won’t apologize (and we certainly won’t use parentheses to apologize!).
In fiction writing, parentheses are used
mainly to provide additional, nonessential...
Oh, the irony!
Puns aside, hyphens can change the
entire meaning of a sentence and are really the one form of punctuation that does
matter. Well, kind of. More on that later. For now, let’s review a couple
of...