by Nick Jones | May 5, 2013 | Articles
Numbers can be tricky – do you write them as figures (1,2,3, etc.) or do you write them as words (one, two, three, etc.)? How do you hyphenate compound words containing numbers? How do you deal with a mixture of figures and words? Dealing with numbers is important for...
by Nick Jones | May 5, 2013 | Articles
They may all look like simple horizontal bars, but the dash and the hyphen have different jobs to do in the world of punctuation. Our article entitled Just doing my job: the helpful hyphen deals with the very helpful job of the hyphen: to eliminate, wherever possible,...
by Nick Jones | May 5, 2013 | Articles
In professional writing it is very important that the reader understands the message we are trying to convey. Just as we don’t want the reader to be distracted by poor grammar or spelling, we equally don’t want them to be offended or distracted by our choice of...
by Nick Jones | May 5, 2013 | Articles
Here at Full Proof, dictionaries and grammar reference books are in constant use by the proofreading team. Whether it’s a subject-specific technical term or just a word that’s not in regular use, our professional proofreaders are trained to find the correct words and...
by Nick Jones | May 5, 2013 | Articles
You may seen Grammar Man in our student proofreading video. Grammar Man is our linguistic superhero, saving the world from grammatical blunders. Well, we’d also like to introduce you to Mr Helpful – the hyphen. He and the rest of his punctuation teammates (comma, full...
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