I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Click on the topics below for a review of rules.
Capitalization
Punctuation—comma use, semicolon and colon use
Quotation Marks—punctuating titles
Plural Nouns
Apostrophes
Parts of Speech
Subjects and Predicates
Subject and Predicate Agreement
Objects—direct and indirect objects, object of the preposition
Pronoun Case
Sentence Fragments
Fused Sentences, Run-ons, and Comma Splices
Parallel Structure Avoiding Common Words |