Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Dash
Instructional resource providing notes and examples on the rules for using the dash.
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Grammarly Blog: Interjections
An explanation of the use of interjections and links to specific interjection usage rules.
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Grammarly Blog: Apostrophe Rules
This page focuses on the rules for the uses and misuses of the apostrophe including contractions and omissions, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, how to write joint possession, plurals, apostrophes with surrounding punctuation, and...
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Emphasizing Contrasting Ideas
This page focuses on the use of commas around contrasting ideas to emphasize that the subject has been modified; examples are provided. Signal words for contrasting ideas include not, unlike and never.
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Grammarly Blog: Every Time
This page explains and provides the rules for use of the two-word compound "every time."
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Between Correlative Conjunction Sets
This page provides the rules and exceptions for the use of commas when using corratative conjuction sets such as either or, or neither nor, or not only but also. No commas are needed between them unless the comma is needed for other...
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Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining
An explanation of the uses of italics and underlining. Links to additional information are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Titles of Works
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing titles.
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Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Words, Letters, Numbers Gram. Rules
An explanation and examples underlining/italicizing words, letters, and numbers when they refer to themselves.
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Grammarly Blog: Hyphen
An explanation of the use of a hyphen and links to specific hyphen usage rules.
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Grammarly Blog: What Is a Hyphen?
This page explains what hyphens are, what they can do, and provides examples of their uses.
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Grammarly Blog: Hyphen Connecting Words Functioning as an Adjective
Rules and examples for using hyphens when writing compound expressions.
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Grammarly Blog: Hyphen With Noun, Adjective or Adverb and Present Participle
Rules and examples for using hyphens when writing compound adjectives ending in a past participle.
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Grammarly Blog: Hyphen With Compound Expressions
Rules and examples for using hyphens when writing compound expressions.
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Grammarly Blog: Hyphen in Compound Expression With Noun and Past Participle
Rules and examples for using hyphens when writing compound adjectives.
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Grammarly Blog: Hyphen in Compound Adjective With Fractions
Rules and examples for using hyphens when writing fractions as compound adjectives.
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Grammarly Blog: Hyphen With Prefixes Ex , Self , All
Rules and examples for using a hyphen when adding the prefixes ex-, self-, and all-.
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Grammarly Blog: Hyphen With Suffix Elect
Rules and examples for using a hyphen when adding the suffix -elect.
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Grammarly Blog: Hyphen Between a Prefix and a Capitalized Word
Rules and examples for using a hyphen between a prefix and a capitalized word.
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Grammarly Blog: Hyphenated Compound Words
An explanation and examples of hyphenated compound words.
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Grammarly Blog: Starting a Sentence With a Conjunction
An explanation with examples of the capitalization and punctuation rules for beginning a sentence with a conjunction.
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Grammarly Blog: Semicolon With Conjunctive Adverbs
Rules and examples for using semicolons with conjunctive adverbs in a compound sentence.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Before Too
This page explains the use of commas to emphasize the word "too" in a sentence; the use of one, two, or no commas depend of the use of "too" and its placement in the sentence.
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Grammarly Blog: Quotation Marks in Titles
Rules and examples for using quotation marks correctly when writing titles of short works.