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Grammar Tip Tuesday: Quotes within Quotes
Today I want to talk briefly about quotes within quotes….within quotes. The endless rabbit hole of quotes within quotes can get confusing, especially if you don’t use proper punctuation. Let’s examine:...
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CMOS Grammar Tip: Is it US or United States?
[source]I came across this issue in a book I recently edited. Here was the question I had to answer: When writing about the United States, should you write US or United States or U.S. or what? Here’s...
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Grammar Tip: Titles of Blogs & Blog Entries
[source]Today’s tip is going to be short and sweet comes to us from CMOS 8.187 concerning blogs and blog entries. This is a topic that wouldn’t have been needed ten to fifteen years ago, but times have...
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More about the Em Dash!
[source] Remember when I talked about using em dash vs. ellipses with dialogue? Here’s another quick em dash tip regarding surrounding punctuation, which can be found in CMOS 6.87. A question mark or...
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When to Capitalize Popular Names of Places
Today’s grammar tip is brought to you by CMOS 8.47. One thing I’ve noticed recently is that people like to capitalize words. I don’t know if this is a new thing, but it’s definitely a thing. Depending...
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Would You Like Fries With That?
According to our friend CMOS, 16th edition, section 8.60: “Personal, national, or geographical names, and words derived from such names, are often lowercased when used with a nonliteral meaning.”...
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May vs. Might
[source]A few weeks ago, my friend Laurie asked me to write a post on may vs. might. So, Laurie, this one’s for you! I’ll start things off with an example: I might order Chinese later? OR I may order...
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Grammar Tip: Capitalizing the Seasons
[source] I’ve talked about this before, but people like to capitalize everything. I do not understand this. If you capitalize every single word, then no words stand out! This defeats the purpose of...
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How to Hyphenate Ages
I saw a tweet about hyphenation earlier this week, and I thought this would make a good grammar tip, because I have to correct this almost every time I edit anything with ages. This is going to be...
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An Historic or A Historic?
An historic OR A historic? I always thought it was AN historic until one day my teacher friend texted me to ask if it was AN one-hour class or A one-hours class. I knew it was “a,” but I wanted to be...
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