“When it comes to matters of the comma, don’t follow your heart—follow the rules.” — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“Affect: To produce a change in Effect: Something that is produced, a result or consequence” — Jenny Baranick Change Copy Share Image
“The closest we can get to set hyphen rules are that the prefixes ex, self, and all always require hyphens while adverbs… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“For example, in English we would write Dear Staff, I would like to recognize Sarah’s outstanding performance. In Slang we would write… — Jenny Baranick Outstanding performance Copy Share Image
“So we’re seemingly in quite a pickle. Sometimes a period provides too much pause between these two sentences, but the comma doesn’t… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes, people meet our writing before they meet us; our writing is our first impression.People read our résumés, cover letters, proposals, and… — Jenny Baranick First impression Copy Share Image
“when certain married words neglect to wear their apostrophes, they might be mistaken for their single friends: The identity of he’ll just… — Jenny Baranick Friendship Copy Share Image
“If you want to see a truly long sentence, pick up a copy of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, which reportedly contains a… — Jenny Baranick Language Copy Share Image
“(Lay) Yesterday, he laid the leather whip down by the handcuffs. (Lie) Five minutes ago, she told him to lay down on… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“Possession is tricky. It brings up issues of jealousy, codependence, self-esteem, and incorrect apostrophe placement.” — Jenny Baranick Jealousy Copy Share Image
“But spell check and grammar check are like vodka: they are definitely helpful but shouldn’t be solely relied on to solve our… — Jenny Baranick Spell check Copy Share Image
“Forget about how you feel about the comma. I know it’s small and cute and curvy, but we’ve got to harden our… — Jenny Baranick Small And Cute Copy Share Image
