Grammar
interesting facts about language, etc.
Grammar
The em dash will shine bright, however, if you’re indicating a break in thought, aiming for an emphatic pause, or setting off an aside that’s a step above being relegated to parentheses.
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Repeat after me: If we speak that way, it’s okay to write that way.
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Hopefully when used to mean “it is hoped” is a member of a class of adverbs known as disjuncts. Disjuncts serve as a means by which the author or speaker can comment directly to the reader or hearer usually on the content of the sentence to which they are attached.
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
Italicize franchise names, however, when referring to a media series: e.g., “the Saw movies,”
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Exceptions to this: •Corporation or brand names that are pluralized, e.g., General Motors’
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•Personal pronouns never take apostrophes.
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A more important question is when you should link to a source. Doing so when citing any factual or quoted information that wasn’t delivered to you firsthand is generally a good idea: results of a study, an interview from another publication or story, statistics, additional examples, etc.
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“Standard practice in entertainment coverage is never to capitalize a job title except when it starts a sentence. The same goes for every position on a movie set: ‘director Martin Scorsese,’ ‘screenwriter Tina Fey,’ etc.
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
•Words that end in -es and are spelled the same as both the singular and plural form take only an apostrophe for the possessive of both forms (series’, species’