SERVICES		PUNCTUATION			GRAMMAR
Academic		Apostrophe	Contractions		Connecting Words	Clause	Dependent clauses
Business			Dates			Phrase	Independent clauses
Personal			Plural forms of non-plural words/letters			Predicate
Writers			Possessive nouns			Sentence	Simple
		Brackets	Asides and afterthoughts			Subject	Complex
INFORMATION			Encasing additional information				Compound
Useful Links			List numbering				Compound-complex
Site Map			Square editorial brackets				Sentence length
Dedication		Capital Letters	Brand names		Errors in Style	Oxymora
Copyright			Days, weeks and months			Redundant phrases (pleonasms)
			Family names			Tautologies
			Festivals and religious references
			First person singular		Grammatical Myths	Data and media as singular nouns
			Geographic references			Double negatives
			Historical periods			None as a plural word
			Languages and ethnic references			Plural pronouns, singular antecedents
			Proper nouns			Prepositions ending sentences
			Roman numerals			Split infinitives
			Starting sentences and direct speech			Starting sentences with conjunctions
			Titles of books and art			Subjective and objective pronouns
		Colon	Bibliographical references			That and which
			Dialogue in scripts			Who and whom
			Direct speech			Who for people and that for things
			Dramatic effect
			Introducing lists		Parts of Speech	Adjectives
			Oppositional phrases			Adverbs
			Scriptural references			Conjunctions	Conjunctive Adverbs
			Setting off subtitles			Interjections	Co-ordinating
			Time references			Nouns	Correlative
		Comma	Avoiding ambiguity			Prepositions	Subordinating
			Interjections			Pronouns
			Introductory phrases			Verbs
			Separating adjectives
			Separating independent clauses		Working with Verbs	Moods	Imperative mood
			Separating words in general lists				Indicative mood
			Serial comma				Subjunctive mood
		Dashes	Change of thought			Tense	Simple present, past and future
			Inclusive numbers and text				Perfect tenses
			Indicating missing letters				Progressive tenses
			Parenthetical remarks				Perfect progressive tenses
			Sudden breaks			Verb forms	Finite verbs
		Ellipsis	Missing words in a quote				Nonfinite verbs	Gerund
			Pause of thought and trail-off			Voice	Active voice	Infinitive
			Words cut-off				Passive voice	Participles
		Exclamation Mark
		Full Stop
		Hyphen	Adjectives of multiple words
			Avoiding ambiguity
			Confusing letter combinations
			Hyphenation in typesetting
			Prefixes and suffixes
			Spelled-out numbers and words
		Italics	Emphasising words
			Foreign words
			Names of vessels
			Titles of art and literature
			Words as words
		Question Mark
		Quotation Marks	Direct speech
			Indirect and silent speech
			Irony and out-of-context words
			Slang and words being discussed
			Titles
		Semicolon	Relating independent clauses
			Separating lists
			Transitional words
		Slash	Offering alternatives to the reader
			Controversial placenames
			Expressing strong connections
			Fractions, ratios and dates
			Legal and commercial abbreviations
			Marking line breaks in poetry

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