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| Dates, exhibits and money references are always numbers |
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| Spell out one thru ten and use numerals for 11 and above |
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| Spell out the numbers if it starts the sentence unless it is 3 or more numbers |
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Three years ago...
Twenty-seven years ago....
469 apartments were rented... |
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| Exhibit No. 1 or Exhibit 1 |
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Please mark this as Exhibit No. 1 (capitalized because it is proper )
Please hand the defendant the next exhibit. |
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January 29, 1990, is my son’s birthday.
I was born in '90, and my son was born in 2’15.
7/27/2007, not 7-27-2007.
I owed him $529.
I owed him $529.38.
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The ten girls were 29 minutes late.
Twenty years ago, I was in high school.
The example is on page 27.
She misspoke on line 15. |
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Dates need to be put just as they are said
December 7, 1992, was the date of the incident.
December the 7th, 1992, was the date of the incident.
December 7th, 1992, was the date of the incident.
December 7 of 1992, was the date of the incident. |
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| when sentence begins with Well or Now, |
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it has to have a comma.
Well,
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| Never put a comma after FANBOYS |
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| for, and, nor, but, or, yet or so. |
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| Comma should be used when two complete sentences are joined by a conjunction |
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| introductory phrases should always be set off with a comma. |
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If you went to the office, what were you going to do once you were
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Even if you don't like the club, you ought to join anyway.
After all, I know what's best.
To the best of your memory, what was the weather like that day? |
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| Proper names are always set off with commas no matter where they are located within sentences |
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Mr. Smith, what were you planning on doing with the money?
What were you planning on doing, Mr. Smith, with the money |
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A series of things without commas should be set off with
commas: |
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I like apples, oranges, and pears.
Did you mean to say that you were sick, that you were feeling bad,
or that you were well |
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Commas are used for throwaway clauses such as like or you
know. |
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Well, you know, I don’t know the answer to that.
I was asking if you know the answer to that question.
He, like, wanted to know, like, when we were going to go |
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Commas are always used between yes, sir; no, sir; yes, ma’am;
no, ma’am. |
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No, ma’am, I don’ t know the answer to that question.
No, sir. They were going to the fair that day. |
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| A series of things with commas should be set off with semicolons |
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The findings were heartrate, normal; blood pressure, slightly
elevated; white blood count, normal. |
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Use semicolons when statements and questions are posed
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You went to court on that date; is that correct?
So you talked to the judge yesterday; is that right? |
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| If the speaker uses a conjunction after each item in a series no commas are used |
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| Were you ever stationed in New York or Chicago or Houston? |
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| If the quoted material is the only question, place the question mark inside the final quotation mark |
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| "How many acres did you buy?' I asked him. |
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| Sometime-adverb meaning an unspecified point in time |
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An unspecified point in time
Sometime soon I will be going to work |
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adverb meaning occassionally
Sometimes he takes me to work |
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| Some time- a noun describing a certain period or span of time |
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a noun describing an adjective
Every evening I spend some time reading |
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| adverb that means whenever or at anytime and modifies a verb by describing when you can perform it |
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| any time- if sentence has at then it will be two words |
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adjective describing time
you can call me at any time
I didn't have any time to schedule |
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| dashed material that resumes is not capital unless it is proper noun |
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| use a pair of dashes when the speakersuspends but does not cancel the idea in midsentence but continues the idea |
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| I always shop -- this may sound strange -- at my first husband's store. |
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