The 12 Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"

When you have a title in quote marks (which is standard in news editing style) and you want to make it possessive, there's no clear rule on whether to put the apostrophe and s inside or outside the quote marks. (Me, I put them inside.)

Have a wonderful holiday!

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Here’s the #SneezyTowers Christmas book haul. Pretty damned good and will keep me happy for a while. #books #amreading #JoinIn #ChristmasBooks

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!” - Ebenezer Scrooge

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The 12 Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"

When an ellipsis is preceded by a grammatically complete sentence, retain the period, question mark, or exclamation point that would normally conclude the sentence.

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In honor of the 25th, we thought we'd share some Christmas spec fic tales from the Liminal Fiction site!

See all of our Xmas stories here:

https://www.limfic.com/?s=Christmas&search_type=book_search

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#currentlyreading decided to dab a bit into Christmas books. It's a collection of new writings by storytellers - it's Christmas, but it's also spooky ans unsettling stories, or so it says! #ChristmasBooks #books #horror

The 12 Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"

If a proper name that ends with S does so because the last word is plural, as in United States, use only an apostrophe to make it possessive (including in book style). The United States' history.

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"A cold, wetdayinDecembe. The worst kind ofdayforthebacklands. The clouds were so low they seemed to trail their mists in the tree-tops and already, at half past three, it was dark within the forest."

It's that time of year again ❄️ Are there any books you reread annually?

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Last night's reading. I loved the Joan Aiken - original entertaining fairy tales. I don't know why I hadn't read it before! A German Christmas was a fun read but there's no history or introduction to the excerpts which would have made it a more interesting read. Lovely cover tho.
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The Holiday Switch is a YA holiday romance. I liked the fun Christmas themed town, the main character’s love of books, and the sweet romance.

What I enjoyed most about the Holiday Switch is how family oriented it was. I loved learning about the Filipino traditions, especially the special name for the role of the older sister. As an oldest of three sisters myself, I definitely related to that.

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Lovelight Farms by B. K. Borison. The best independently published book I've read. A fun Christmas-y romance. I did want to shake the protagonist a few times, but this is an enjoyable, light read.

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Reading one new favorite, "Old Christmas", by Washington Irving and one old favorite, "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens. Did you know Washington Irving wrote Christmas stories and that his Christmas stories inspired Charles Dickens? 🎄📚❤️
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The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore (@TheAuthorGuy)
“If you’re buying this book as a gift for your grandma or a kid, you should be aware that it contains cusswords as well as tasteful depictions of cannibalism and people in their forties having sex. Don’t blame me. I told you.”
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The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore (@TheAuthorGuy)

“If you’re buying this book as a gift for your grandma or a kid, you should be aware that it contains cusswords as well as tasteful depictions of cannibalism and people in their forties having sex. Don’t blame me. I told you.”

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The 12 Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"

Editing styles disagree on how to form the plural of a proper name that ends in S. In book, science and academic (B, S, A) writing, add another s: James's. In news style, add just an apostrophe: James'.

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My Christmas Newsletter will be winging its way to my subscribers tomorrow.

If you haven't signed up yet, click here: http://eepurl.com/ciL8ab

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It would be ‘criminal’ not to treat your #kindle to a nice juicy MURDER…or two!

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The 12 Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"

A colon or semicolon can come after a closing quotation mark, but never before one.

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The 12 Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"

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It would be ‘criminal’ not to treat your #kindle to a nice juicy MURDER…or two!

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