With the various types of punctuation, there should be some hard-and-fast rules for their usage, right? Well, there are. The problem that people have generally lies in either they don’t know the rules or they confuse American rules with British rules. When in a quote, the period and the comma always go inside the quotation […]
Some marks of punctuation depend on the context of the words as to whether they will go inside or outside the quotation marks. The question mark is one such punctuation mark. When what is in the quotation marks is a question, the question mark will go inside the quotation marks. When the entire sentence is […]
Verbs denoting action often require objects to complete the thought and the meaning. These verbs are called transitive verbs. The objects, like the subjects of the verbs, are usually nouns and pronouns. The direct object is the noun the verb is acting upon, and the indirect object is the noun that is being affected by […]
The Hanover Book Expo is a place where book lovers come alive. The Hanover Book Expo, which took place in November 2024, featured three word experts, including April Michelle Davis, along with many local authors! Whether you write books, read books, or do both, it was a great time, including for children who enjoyed […]
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