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Getting it write!
Future Perfect sells a range of grammar tips as Adobe PDF documents. You can buy the tips individually, in groups or as the whole collection.
Current tips
We currently offer the following tips as PDF documents.
Punctuation and odd symbols
- hyphens and dashes – the difference
- the ‘at’ sign (@)
- the ampersand (&)
- the diaeresis (as in ‘Chloë’)
- the ellipsis – not three full stops (…)
How to write or use
- apostrophes with names ending in -s
- apostrophes as the temporal genitive (‘five days’ time’)
- bullet points
- emphatic quotation marks (‘like this’)
- hyphens and when to use them
- hyphens in spellings (as in ‘long-term, high-quality plan’)
- using single and double quotation marks
- when to use ‘that’ and ‘which’
Formatting
- bold and special rules
- cut and paste tips
- need to track changes after the event
- one space or two after a full stop
- underlining and special rules
- using hanging punctuation
Times, dates and contact information
- getting address presentation right
- getting telephone-number-grouping right
- getting date syntax right
- getting time syntax right
Odd words and phrases
- getting the special verb ‘to bequeath’ right
- getting the special verb ‘to comprise’ right
- getting the special verb ‘to lie’ right
- the true meaning of the phrase ‘ad hoc’
- using ‘in to’ or ‘into’
