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• Your friend, the comma
• The comma is a valuable, useful punctuation
  device because it separates the structural
  elements of sentences into manageable segments.
  (from http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/gramm
  ar/g_comma.html)
• http//cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm
• And I will do the first quiz ? since I believe in
  the breath rule of commas (you use a comma
  where you would take a breath, assuming you can
  read out loud OK).
• As in http//www.stpt.usf.edu/pms/comma.html

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• Now you run across the room and do the second
  quiz on commas!
• http//cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm

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• The colon and semicolon
• Rememberall punctuation is designed to aid the
  flow of a sentence and increase its clarity!
• is its OK?
• http//www.stpt.usf.edu/pms/colon.html ? colons
• http//www.stpt.usf.edu/pms/semicolon.html ?
  semicolons

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• The poor, pathetic apostrophe
• The apostrophe is in trouble (or we are)!
• http//www.wilbers.com/apostrophes.htm
• http//www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/
• http//www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_508998.html
• http//www.io.com/hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/gram1.h
  tmlapost

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• The equally poor, pathetic hyphen (in my
  opinion!)
• Americans and hyphens do not mix ?
• And yetwe use hyphens in Meteorology!!!

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• Baroclinically-unstable disturbance
• High-frequency noise
• Quasi-biennial oscillation
• Long-lasting drought
• Year-to-year
• Non-uniform
• Global-scale motions

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grammar, punctuation etc.

• When do we use the hyphen?
• http//www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutsp
  elling/hyphen

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• Random other things
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_o
  vervw.html