• Periods go inside quotation marks (always):
  • Wrong: He said, "That's nice".
  • Right: He said, "That's nice."
• Commas go inside quotation marks:
  • Wrong: "That's nice", he said.
  • Right: "That's nice," he said.
• Manor/Manner
  • a conversational manner
  • live at the manor
• Single thought adjectives have hyphens (two or more words which serve as a single adjective before a noun):
  • computer-based
• Lengthily/lengthy
  • Lengthily = (adv.) In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.
  • Lengthy = (adj.) Of considerable length, especially in time; extended: a lengthy convalescence.
• Affect/effect
  • Common: The arrows affected Ardvark.
  • Rare: She displayed a happy affect.
  • Common: The effect was eye-popping.
  • Rare: Aardvark hoped to effect change within the burrow.
• Cordination/Coordination
  • Just use coordination
• Opoosed/oposed
  • Just use oposed
• Extreemly/extremely
  • Just use extremely
• Use commas between adjectives as follows:
  • If you can replace the comma with 'and':
    • If you can switch the order of the adjectives:
      • use a comma
  • Else:     
    • don't use a comma
• The plural form of analysis is analyses.
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