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| FAQ Item Usage and Grammar Q. Would it be a gender-biased usage if you used “man-made element ...”? What could be the neutral substitute, “human-made element”? A. We try to avoid using “man-made... |
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| FAQ Item Commas Q. When I encounter a restrictive clause with multiple elements, do I put a comma...at the end of the last element? For example: The woman who was blonde, green-eyed, and slim said... |
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| elements like text-entry boxes and list boxes, and stylistic elements like graphics and multimedia....” Thanks! A. Your editor objects because it’s a “rule” not to put a comma between two elements making up...a compound object. The comma is needed in your sentence, however, because your two elements are... |
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| element. If you are worried that readers will be lost, provide a cross-reference under the middle element.... |
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| formatting of the text above vertical lists. The introductory element is often a few words, and it is...usually not a complete grammatical sentence, yet we end the introductory element with a colon. One woman...either rewriting the introductory element as a complete sentence or removing the colon. What do you... |
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| FAQ Item Usage and Grammar Q. Grammarians Strunk and White say in their book, The Elements of Style... |
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| question concerns incorporating elements of The Chicago Manual of Style into the college newspaper’s... |
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| element a stand-alone sentence enclosed in parentheses, like this: ‘(Romans 13 clearly delegates...period after sword and make your parenthetical element a stand-alone sentence enclosed in parentheses... |
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| answer to this question, we refer you to the indispensable Elements of Indigenous Style, by Gregory... |
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| particles alphabetized based on the particle or the first element? I.e., which comes first, “da Rosa” or... |
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