Considering it is no more than a squiggle – a comma suspended in mid-air – it’s amazing how much trouble the humble apostrophe can cause. Most commonly used with an ‘s’, it can wreak grammatical havoc in a number of…
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Apostrophe catastrophes
Tagged with: apostrophe, apostrophes, grocer's apostrophe, inverted comma, possessive, possessive s
Posted in Punctuation
Posted in Punctuation
How to use Find and Replace
When proofreading or editing in Microsoft Word, the Find and Replace feature can be an invaluable timesaving tool and assurance of consistency. If you’re not already using it, now is the time to start! What is Find and Replace? Most…
Tagged with: document, error, find, find and replace, microsoft, prep, proofread, replace, replace all, search, tool, Word
Posted in Grammar, Proofreading/copy-editing, Punctuation, Spelling, Style
Posted in Grammar, Proofreading/copy-editing, Punctuation, Spelling, Style
Consistency
This is something I find myself repeating day in, day out: The key is consistency. There are plenty of rules that must be followed in writing, but, at the same time, there are different styles that can be adopted but…
Tagged with: capitalisation, consistency, decision, find and replace, format, headings, punctuation, spelling, style
Posted in Capitalisation, Proofreading/copy-editing, Punctuation, Spelling, Style
Posted in Capitalisation, Proofreading/copy-editing, Punctuation, Spelling, Style
The En Rule
A previous post on this blog covered when to use a hyphen (-) and when to use a en dash (–). Under ‘En Dash’, point 2 stated that an en dash is used to show relationships and connections between two words.…
Tagged with: compound, copy-editing, en dash, en rule, equal, hyphen, partnership, proofreading, relationship, rule
Posted in Punctuation
Posted in Punctuation