Tag: How-to Guide

• Top reasons you might have an awkward sentence

  January 20, 2023

  Talking the Technicals

  How-to Guide, Sentence

  Find out how to fix your awkward sentences and the top problems that make them.

• Added Pieces: understanding prefixes and suffixes

  January 6, 2023

  Talking the Technicals

  How-to Guide, Sentence, Suffixes and prefixes

  Find out more about prefixes and suffixes, beyond just numbers and verb tenses.

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  Periods: putting an end to tricky sentences

  December 16, 2022

  Talking the Technicals

  How-to Guide, Periods and parentheses, Periods and quotes

  Learn the proper placement for periods, when you’re dealing with other punctation.

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  11 things you forgot about colons and semicolons

  December 2, 2022

  Talking the Technicals

  Colon vs semicolon, How to use colons, How to use Semicolons, How-to Guide

  Find out what seperates colons from semicolons and the updates rules.

• 14 how-to tips on hyphens and dashes

  November 18, 2022

  Talking the Technicals

  How to use Em dashes and En dashes, How-to Guide, Hyphen usage

  Get your answers to the hyphen vs. dash debate, and find out which one goes where.

• Correcting common apostrophe mistakes

  November 4, 2022

  Talking the Technicals

  Apostrophe usage, How-to Guide, Plural, Possessives, Punctuation

  Find out how to handle apostrophies and complex plural situations that follow.

• 7 basic commas to clean up your writing

  October 21, 2022

  Talking the Technicals

  Comma usage, How-to Guide, Punctuation

  Comma usage and placement can escape the best of us. Update yourself on the rules.

• Grammar recap for workplace writing anxiety

  October 7, 2022

  Talking the Technicals

  Grammar, How-to Guide, Punctuation, Sentence

  Understand the sentence tools that lead to better grammar.