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Plurals
38
Brackets
38
Colons
38
Commas
39
Lists
39
Introductory clauses
39
Parentheses
39
Which
39
Conjunctive adverbs
39
Dashes
39
Ellipses
40
Exclamation marks
40
Full stops
40
Hyphens
40
Prefixes
40
Compounds
40
Quotation marks
41
Quoted content
41
Titles
41
Call-outs
41
Semicolons
41
Soliduses
41
Online references
42
Writing for the web
43
Contextual links
43
URLs
43
Time and date
44
Dates
45
Days and months
45
Time
45
Numbers and measurements
46
Numbers
47
Ages
47
Ordinals
47
Telephone numbers
48
Units of measurement
48
Percentages
48
Currency
48
Commonly misused terms
50
‘ A ’ and ‘ an ’
51
‘ Affect ’ and ‘ effect ’
51
‘ But ’ and ‘ however ’
51
‘ Can ’ and ‘ may ’
51
‘ Compare to ’ versus ‘ compare with ’
51
‘ Different from ’ and ‘ different to ’
51
‘ Either ’ versus ‘ neither ’
52
‘ Fewer ’ and ‘ less ’
52
Figures of speech
52
‘ Forego ’ and ‘ forgo ’
52
‘ Lay ’ and ‘ lie ’
52
Myriad
52
‘ Onto ’ and ‘ on to ’
52
‘ Over ’ and ‘ more than ’
53
Percentage increases
53
‘ That ’ and ‘ which ’
53
‘ That ’ and ‘ who ’
53
‘ Their ’, ‘ there ’ and ‘ they ’ re ’
53
‘ Who ’ and ‘ whom ’
53
Suicide
54
Spelling
55