The Grammar Diva Blog - Bites of Grammar and Such

Lost in Translation…

…or obscured by transcription, adrift in adaptation, concealed by rendition

Do you capitalize the word that comes directly after a colon? Sometimes you do; sometimes you don’t.

So, how well do you know your italics and quotation marks?

Do you read poetry? If not, why not?

Hmmm….Does the period go inside the quotation marks? Or does it go outside?

When I went to junior high and high school, back in the Dark Ages (practically), we read the worst (in my opinion) books.

… and a little bit of that.

Here are some of the novels I have read in the past couple of months.