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avoid the slash?

american-english british-english writing sentence-patterns slash

Are such sentence constructions acceptable?

grammar writing-style writing em-dash

Should I refer to "Section 2.3" or "Subsection 2.3"?

word-choice meaning writing syntactic-analysis

Is there a name for the literary device of having multiple speakers alternating in the same paragraph?

writing-style writing literary-device

Why is English written and read left to right?

writing reading

Using "and" twice in a list

grammar grammaticality punctuation writing

Should there be a period after an equation?

punctuation writing period

Question mark usage/position when sentence ends with a declarative quotation?

punctuation writing writing-style question-mark

Can "his/her" be replaced by "his"? [closed]

pronouns writing possessives singular-they

Why are numbers sometimes spelled out and then numerals specified as well? [closed]

writing numbers

The verb for carrying out a bitwise OR/AND operation

verbs terminology writing programming

How to add contextualizing text to a quotation?

writing quotes square-brackets

Are contractions of "I am" or "I would" rude? [duplicate]

formality writing contractions register

Are spelling, punctuation and capitalization part of grammar?

grammar orthography writing

Can "hence" be used at the beginning of a sentence?

conjunctions writing sentence-starts

Why is it spelled "maintenance" and not "maintainance?"

orthography writing

Official e-mail

writing email salutations

Numeric abbreviations in business quotes [closed]

writing numbers

Is there a proper name for the 3 asterisks that are used to suggest temporal discontinuity?

punctuation writing books symbols

Coordinating conjunction immediately followed by parenthetical — Is a comma needed or not?

punctuation writing commas