Editor’s note: June Casagrande’s column on language and usage ran in the Daily Pilot until 2005. We’re pleased to welcome her back. Her column will run Saturdays. If you’ve ever watched a man eating ...
The English language has a rich storehouse of words accumulated through different innovative methods. Adding prefixes to words, already in use, is one such method. A prefix is a type of affix attached ...
There's nothing wrong with hyphenating "multi-cultural." There's nothing wrong with not hyphenating "multicultural." There's nothing wrong with doing it both ways in a single document. But it's very ...
Language has rules. For people who aren’t too confident in their writing and grammar skills, the rules can be very useful, helping determine things like which verb form to use and where to put a ...
Today’s column concerns two familiar punctuation marks: the hyphen (-) and the dash (—). While most readers readily recognize these marks, far fewer are aware of the various ways in which they could ...
Carlos Cajina from Nicaragua asks: Compound adjectives can be: 1. Joined by a hyphen 2. Appear as a single word 3. Appear as two separate words. Is there a rule - or set of rules - to know when to use ...
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