Comments on: More “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

By: joe

joe — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:20:00 +0000

Since when did puncuation become a reason to argue?

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:40:00 +0000

This has been an entirely fun read! Not to be anal, but a SCHOOL bus would know? Come on!

By: mor

mor — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:29:00 +0000

On most school buses around here (Long Island, NY) is a sign that says:

“We” Want You To Work For Us

You would think a SCHOOL bus would know how to use quotes!

By: Doris

Doris — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:23:56 +0000

I can handle misused quoation marks. I CANNOT handle misused apostrophes.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:24:35 +0000

The reason that the hyphen is not inserted between the “ly” adverb and the adjective is that it is not needed for clarity – that’s the main reason you’d add a hyphen between an adverb and an adjective, to make things clearer. It’s not wrong, strictly speaking, either way, because the meaning is still well preserved.

By: Rayzor

Rayzor — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:53:02 +0000

i dont no what all this fuss over “punctuation” is all-about. it seems to me that “proof-reading” a restaurants menu seems a little anal. Frankly, eye think “spelling” is a little over-rated, two.

By: fugly

fugly — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:09:26 +0000

Just let Tom be “right.”

By: David

David — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:16:00 +0000

I’m on the side of Betsy and Kent. It may be that way according to AP, but that’s just the standard they’ve adopted, nothing more.

I gave my Strunk & White to my daughter to take to college, so I can’t look it up, but the way I learned it says it should have the hyphen when used as a compound adjective.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:17:18 +0000

Kent,

Re: hyphens
You are incorrect sir.
I quote from the AP Stylebook: “When a compound modifier–two or more words that express a single concept–precedes a noun, use hyphens to link all the words in the compound except the adverb very and all adverbs that end in -ly.”

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:46:17 +0000

I live a few block away from the local business-naming-atrocity,
“Your” Personal Trainer.

http://www.yourpersonaltrainers.com/