The Grammar Diva Blog - Bites of Grammar and Such

Thank you to everyone who wrote me to tell me about their favorite books and the first books they remember reading. Here is what you said:

When I copyedit, I see all kinds of lines and spaces that are supposed to be dashes. This post is about the difference between hyphens and dashes (both en dashes and em dashes).

I don’t know about you, but one of my pet peeves is getting into a book and having it sound familiar: “I think I have read this before.”

What is the first book you remember reading? Or having read to you? Or owning?

“Hmmm….Should I use compose or comprise? What is the difference?”