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When the attorney is using "yes" and "no" in a generic way -- that is, s/he is not asking for those specific words but is looking for a positive or negative answer -- they are not capped or quoted....

A great reference -- onelook.com is a dictionary website. It is most useful for the the FORM of a word. You already know the meaning of swap meet, but is it one word or two words or hyphenated? Put...

Percentages are always in figures and are never hyphenated as adjectives. ...A 72 percent increase is excessive. ...I disagree with the 4 percent figure. Happy punctuating! Margie

When a person repeats only a part of the original statement, quote only the part that was in the original. ...to wait for a later to be discovered piece of evidence. Object to the foundation for t...

Periods and commas go inside quotes without exception; colons and semicolons go outside quotes without exception. Question marks go inside or outside quotes depending on where the question is bein...

The word "court." standing alone, is capped when it refers to the judge, one trial judge, and the judge alone. Otherwise, it is not capped. ...The Court will rule on the motion. ...The court will...

Many of you have expressed a desire for a more comprehensive seminar on punctuation -- more in depth, so to speak. So I have put together a webinar for this fall that becomes a "course" in punctuat...

We purists do not use "c" for "see" and "4" for "for" in text messaging. We certainly do not use "wud" for "would." And the list goes on. How many of us put in all punctuation in texting? Well, of ...

We add a prefix to a word to make a solid word unless there is already a word with that spelling and a different meaning. This occurs most often with the prefix "re-." ...She promises to work to r...