Punctuationmatters.com Website Review

Punctuation: Important for academic and published writing. Not a bad idea if you just want to be understood.. THE EN DASH, EM DASH AND HYPHEN (ALSO NDASH AND MDASH, N DASH AND M DASH OR N-DASH AND M-DASH) In lots of writing, the use of dashes is very inconsistent – regardless of how ‘professional’ the writers are. The hyphen, dash, n-dash and m-dash crop-up all the time in Microsoft Word but most of us don’t know why, and we use them inconsistently. The fact is that the n-dash and m-dash are very useful and easy to use – whether you follow the rules or break them (but it’s best to The word nonplussed has a different meaning than many people think. Nonplussed seems to be taking on an entirely new meaning simply because it is misused so often, by so many writers. Often, you can see writers (or hear speakers) use “nonplussed” to describe a feeling Punctuation on a smartphone is a problem sometimes. As a result, many people almost give up on punctuation when they use Twitter and other online tools that are most often used from a mobile device. The n-dash and m-dash are among the punctuation you rarely see used in tweets, A reader asked about the difference between a minus symbol and an N-dash (thanks Tem).  I had to do a bit of homework on this. Unicode (the standard for electronically encoding text information) has separate codes for the minus sign, hyphen and N-dash. Below you can Using words like ‘however’ (a conjunctive adverb) within a sentence sometimes seems clunky and can make sentences hard to read. This is a clear explanation of using a semicolon to solve this problem. Using the n-dash and m-dash when you are creating a webpage or a blog post can seem confusing, but really it is quite easy and you don’t It is easy to use the n-dash and m-dash in Microsoft Word. You’ve probably noticed that they get inserted automatically sometimes: When you write a web address at the end of a sentence, should you follow it with punctuation, or use no punctuation (to help avoid