Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: Don’t mistake grammar rules for logic

I’ve gotten a lot of emails recently about where to put periods and commas relative to quotation marks. The notes were prompted by a recent column in which I mentioned that, in American English, a ...
Reader's Digest

13 Comma Rules Everyone Should Know

Example: I went to the beach, and I got a sunburn. The two independent clauses in this sentence are “I went to the beach” and “I got a sunburn.” The coordinating conjunction is “and.” Other ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: Inside or outside quotation marks? Don’t look to logic

I’ve gotten a lot of emails recently about where to put periods and commas relative to quotation marks. The notes were prompted by a recent column in which I mentioned that, in American English, a ...