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Semicolons are often confusing for people, and I find many mistakes when I edit manuscripts for my editing service, Editor 911. Here are some punctuation rules about the semicolon. The semicolon can be used to join two complete sentences that are related. There could be a conjunction (and, or, but), but there usually isn't. Here is an example of......

Today, I am going to discuss another punctuation mistake I often see when I am editing manuscripts for my freelance editing business, Editor 911 . Punctuation rules and comma rules are often hard to remember, and they can be confusing. Similar to the apostrophe rule discussed in the previous post, people often go comma-happy when they learn a comma......

The next series of this blog is going to be a number of posts on punctuation rules. We will start with apostrophe rules as misplaced apostrophes are mistakes I see many times when I am editing manuscripts for my freelance editing business, Editor 911 . A possessive noun is a noun that is showing ownership of something. For example: the dogs' bones......