http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EditsGrammar/A professional editor, writer, and English tutor answers your questions about the finer points of grammar, word usage, and other technical aspects of the writer's craft. E-mail questions to editormum@usa.com, or use the Comments section of a previous post. Happy Writing!<p><p> <i>If you would like to express your appreciation of this blog by leaving a "tip," please click on the donation link below.</i>hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EditsGrammar/570767The Grammar Guru has always maintained that punctuation is important. This company has found out too late that a simple comma voids their iron-clad contract before the original end date, and may end up costing them more than $2 million. That said, today is the day to celebrate punctuation. At...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EditsGrammar/564389Very amused by a recent exchange on the Forbes.com website, commenting on an article about multi-level marketing. One guy corrected another's spelling, and lo, and behold, the wars were on! The argument was over which of two spellings was correct: bush league or Busch League. I did a little...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EditsGrammar/538308http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2008/04/18/ten-typographic-mistakes-everyone-makes/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.recedinghairline.co.uk%2Ffiles%2Fc1c3be2fda2b218e858029a4bde7e96c-397.html&frame=true[url and the comments section is hilarious! I can almost tell you how old each of the commenters is,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EditsGrammar/536338I"m reading the online news this morning, and one of the stories presents me with the following two sentences... sentences which are so badly written that I wonder how the writer made it out of journalism school! Can you pinpoint the problems and fix them? Problem Sentence 1: A widow is suing...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EditsGrammar/526976The Grammar Guru cannot take it anymore! "Low and behold," "roads to hoe," "lines to tow," "here, here!" and "he has more then me." WHAT is this world coming to that even simple, everyday expressions cannot be accurately spelled? The phrase, dear friends, is Lo, and behold! As is "lo, the angel...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EditsGrammar/511477The Grammar Guru keeps coming across this unbelievable error in her excursions through both online and print media. She doesn't really understand why there is confusion between these two terms, but she thought that she ought, perhaps, to try to clear it up anyway. Copyright. This is the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EditsGrammar/504395The Grammar Guru has become painfully aware of a more and more common mistake in word usage. She has seen this on blogs, on news sites, and in various other written venues. And the mistake is creeping into people's speech. So The Grammar Guru tells everyone, right now, to stop it! The words adieu...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EditsGrammar/482211Dear Grammar Guru: When doing a PowerPoint presentation, are periods required at the end of sentences and/or bullet points when they are complete sentences? Generally, if you have a slide that contains text in a block, like a quote or a sentence, you should use normal punctuation. For bullet...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EditsGrammar/456557and nine-tenths of the population probably has no clue what Thag meant. I have come across the word solipsism or one of its variants three times in one day. That's not exactly a common word among the general population, yet the first two times I met it, I nodded politely and read on. The third...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EditsGrammar/451237Get in on the Blogit Writers' Donation! A group of us at work are having our own "Biggest Loser" competition, and we decided to participate in the local WalkAmerica 5K walk, a fundraiser to help prevent premature birth and to provide care for preemie babies. It's one of those "sponsored walk"...