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There are people in the world who will pay money to bask in my grammar wisdom. Not many, mind you, and they won’t pay much, but that doesn’t change the fact that 15 people enrolled in a seminar I ...

When you reach the end of a sentence, you need a period, question mark, or exclamation point. Phrases or subordinate clauses standing alone are missing a subject or a verb or are stated in such a way ...

In order to make your writing clear, you need to use commas. As well as using them to separate out key information, or divide up different clauses, commas can also completely change the meaning of a ...