Punctuation Part 2

This post is about more ways to improve my writing through grammar. I will talk about the 3 sections I read in Rules for Writers, the unnecessary comma, the apostrophe. and quotation marks.

MacIntosh, Scott. I want YOU to use grammar. 07/14/2011. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution. 

The Unnecessary Comma:

I am someone who loves commas. I hate run-on sentences or even really longs ones that don't have commas. But I realize that sometimes I probably overuse them. One of the subsection that stood out to me was, not using a comma after a phrase that begins and inverted sentence. I tend to do this a lot because that is where I would naturally take a breath, but apparently its grammatically wrong.

:The Apostrophe

I remember that it took me a really long time to learn the right times to use "its" and "it's." But once I got it, I'm pretty good at it now. I saw that this section had one sentence about it, but I'm surprised that there wasn't more because this seems to be a thing that people have a really hard time catching on to.

Quotation Marks:

I"m always mixing up when to use quotation marks. For example, I use single quotes around the "its" and "it's" and went back to change them to regular quotes. I also have a hard time remembering which works of production to use quotes around verses italicize it. I know can remember that shorts works use quotes.


While revising my draft with this new knowledge, I found exactly what I talked about above. I used too many commas, my "its" were correct, and for the most part used quotes correctly when using a direct quote from the article. I'm glad I am now able to spot these because it will make future revising easier.