semicolon use Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/semicolon-use/ Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:40:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-WBP-FAVICON_7-32x32.jpg semicolon use Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/semicolon-use/ 32 32 A Little Love for Put-down Punctuation https://old.wordsbyapro.com/your-dog-ate-grandma-folly-of-missing-commas-and-semicolons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-dog-ate-grandma-folly-of-missing-commas-and-semicolons https://old.wordsbyapro.com/your-dog-ate-grandma-folly-of-missing-commas-and-semicolons/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:39:11 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1519 In journalism, commas in a list are frowned on (AP Style outright bans them), and simplistic writing is encouraged. While journalists are, by far, some of the best writers out there, they have to adhere to a certain style—and not just AP or inverted pyramid. Their writing itself must be presented a specific way, or […]

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