Punctuation – Lisa Harrison Communications

When it’s “its”, not “it’s”

Use of the apostrophe has crept into pluralization, even in basic words (“he jump’s in”). I suspect the creeping is born of the ongoing uncertainty about when to use “it’s” versus “its”, and so I offer the following to clarify. Plural We can get this out of the way first – plural is plural. NoContinue reading “When it’s “its”, not “it’s””

A tale of two commas

This cautionary tale begins with a joke showcased by Lynne Truss in her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves — The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. A panda walks into a café, orders and eats a sandwich, and then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. As the panda is leaving, the confusedContinue reading “A tale of two commas”