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Common Errors Workbook: Punctuation and mechanics

  1. Capitalizing with colons, parentheses, and quotations
  2. Colons misused with lists
  3. Comma splices
  4. Commas with long introductory modifiers
  5. Commas with that and which clauses
  6. Contractions
  7. Do not use a comma to set off a because clause that follows a main clause
  8. Do not use an apostrophe to make a noun plural
  9. Do not use dashes as periods
  10. Hyphens with numbers
  11. Identifying compound sentences that require commas
  12. Making abbreviations and acronyms plural
  13. Possessive forms of personal pronouns never take the apostrophe
  14. Punctuation of abbreviations and acronyms
  15. Quotations within quotations
  16. Semicolons
  17. The art of typing a dash
  18. Using periods, commas, colons, and semicolons with parentheses





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