Given that we’ve conquered the dreaded comma splice, I thought it might be time to take a look at The Oxford Comma, and all the fuss that lies therein. I have the misfortune to live near Oxford, and I…
Dash it all!
When it comes to the use of dashes, I regularly see authors going for all manner of random combinations throughout their MS. And no wonder, given that there are three of the little blighters to choose from: the hyphen…
The humble colon
Following on from my semicolon post, it’s time to conquer the colon (in a grammatical, not an anatomical sense). Whilst I don’t see colons used with as much misplaced, random abandon as semicolons, I rarely see them used at all.…