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Can the period be dropped in "vs" when used as part of a compound modifier?

punctuation abbreviations writing-style compounds period

What are the real rules for choosing between the simple past and past perfect when both actions are in the past?

writing-style sequence-of-tenses simple-past-vs-past-perfect is-it-a-rule narration

Number agreement of "a thing of the past"

word-choice grammaticality verbs verb-agreement writing-style

'some degree of' - a little or a lot?

writing-style ambiguity

Is this an acceptable way of writing the count of items in a sentence?

writing-style numbers

Apologize for misunderstanding

grammaticality writing-style

Non-idiomatic "would be a rare X that Y": "...would be a rare hurricane that..."

phrases idioms writing-style ambiguity

"You know" in spoken English [duplicate]

writing-style speech filler-words

Omitting "by" after "impressed"

grammaticality prepositions writing-style ellipsis

Verb order — which way is right?

grammar verbs word-order writing-style

Antiviral vs Anti-Viral [closed]

punctuation orthography writing-style hyphenation prefixes

Religious names in index. How do you order and present? [closed]

writing-style religion list-order

"action is told rather than given" - what does it mean?

meaning writing-style

"has" or "have"? As in "X requires that Y have ..." versus "X requires that Y has ..."

grammaticality writing-style infinitives

Starting a sentence with 'About your question, ...'

commas formality writing-style semicolon sentence-starts

"even to" and "to even"

word-order writing-style infinitives

"Already" at the beginning of a sentence

adverbs word-order sentence writing-style sentence-starts

British English for possessive 's when a names ends with "s" [duplicate]

punctuation writing-style possessives apostrophe names

When should you repeat the same subject in a compound sentence?

grammaticality writing-style conjunction-reduction compound-sentences compound-subjects

Do any style guides advocate the alternating use of "he" and "she" as a gender-neutral pronoun?

word-usage pronouns writing-style gender-neutral style-manuals