Other pet peeve corrections:
a lot -> alot
all right-> alright
BUT "awhile" can be correct unless it's used as part of a noun phrase with
an object of a preposition. ("We stayed for a while.")
And one that I see so often I'm considering having a stamp made with the
rule:
In the United States, periods and commas go inside quotation marks
regardless of logic. But even if the sense of the sentence doesn't seem
right, the comma and period are still inside. Here's the example from
Webster's:
In American style, then, you would write: My favorite poem is Robert Frost's
"Design." But in England you would write: My favorite poem is Robert Frost's
"Design".
And here's a website that explains it:
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htm
Beth Benoit (who needs to stop playing on TIPS and get back to papers)
University System of New Hampshire
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