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Okay, not wrong, but misunderstood. When the dictionary tries to tell you what the beginning of a word means, it uses a hyphen to indicate that it is a prefix.…

He has many names: the serial comma; the Oxford comma; the Harvard comma. It is the comma used before the last item in a list: red, white, and blue. Style…

Or at least correct. There is no reason in the modern era to put two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence. In the typing era, that…

Contractions aren't bad in everyday writing, but they are not acceptable in scientific writing.

Between is used when there are two items; among is used when there are more. I traveled between Chicago and Cincinnati, but I traveled among Chicago, Cincinnati, and Cleveland.

A debate may "center on" a certain issue, but it cannot "center around" it. The phrase "centers on" is a geometric reference. A circle centers on a single point. Imagine…

When using quotation marks, always start with double and then alternate with single. "But," you will say, "my math teacher told me, 'One comes before two.'"