“Use the semicolon like you would use any powerful weapon (your best pick-up line or your most effective push-up bra): carefully and sparingly.” — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“The difference between lay and lie is like the difference between sadism and masochism: one means doing something to someone (or something) else, while… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“We use the en dash when we want to express a range of values: Goldilocks will only sleep on Egyptian cotton sheets with a… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“Lacks commitment: I suppose I could marry Dan. Acknowledges commitment: I’m supposed to marry Dan.” — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“First impressions stick. That’s why it’s so important that we do tedious things like remember to wear deodorant, brush our teeth, and insert commas… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“The semicolon, my friends, is the punctuation mark we use to join two complete sentences. When we want to separate two complete sentences, we… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“Guys who kiss like they’re giving CPR should have to attend kissing classes. If I take out “who kiss like they’re giving CPR,” this… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“You may think that you don't need to worry about actually learning the grammar rules because spell check and grammar check will come to… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“In high school, I was such a slut. And I was not alone; most girls in my high school were total sluts. We didn’t… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“I am the English teacher who teaches the “boring stuff”— I teach a class on grammar called Writing Skills. My students think I love… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“A comma splice means that a comma has been inserted between two complete sentences.” — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“Incorrect: I use to be the most popular guy in school, but now I am the Thursday night trivia king at the local bar.… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“We might also want to use a semicolon to hold together two sentences to avoid giving the reader too much time to think about… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“Dictionaries are like vitamins and floss; we buy them and then never use them. Even I, an English teacher, a lover of words, have… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“One of the most pressing questions of our time is arguably this: Does size matter? Is it about quantity or quality? Is it the… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“Not only can rearranging our sentences to avoid ending them in prepositions sound pretentious, it’s also unnecessary. Grammar experts agree that it’s perfectly acceptable… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
