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Category: Punctuation Puzzles

Dashes, Parentheses or Brackets
Punctuation Puzzles

Dashes, Parentheses or Brackets

Roula MizerakiJanuary 18, 2025December 3, 2024

Another common “puzzle” regarding punctuation is when to use dashes, parentheses or brackets. As a general rule, let’s just say…

Quotation Marks
Punctuation Puzzles

Quotation Marks

Roula MizerakiDecember 23, 2024November 22, 2025

Another source of frequent pain and doubt is the use of quotation marks and, even more so, the use of…

Punctuation Puzzles: The Colon (:)
Punctuation Puzzles

Punctuation Puzzles: The Colon (:)

Roula MizerakiNovember 16, 2024September 30, 2024

In issue #394, we started with a feature section on “The Lost Art of Punctuating,” in which explicit details were…

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