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yoke |
harness for oxen |
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yolk |
yellow center of an egg |
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yore |
long past |
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you're |
contraction for you are |
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your |
possessive pronoun |
Chapter 3
Punctuation
Spacing with Punctuation
Rule 1. With a typewriter or word processor, you sometimes use one space or two spaces following punctuation. With a computer, use only one space following periods, commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation points, question marks, and quotation marks. With a computer, the space needed after these punctuation marks is proportioned automatically.
Rule 2. Use no spaces on either side of a hyphen. (For more rules about hyphens, see page 65).
Example: We borrowed twenty-three sheets of paper.
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For spacing with ellipsis marks, see the section that follows. For spacing with en and |
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em dashes, see page 68. |
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Periods
Rule 1. Use a period at the end of a complete sentence that is a statement.
Example: I know that you would never break my trust intentionally.
Rule 2. If the last word in the sentence ends in a period, do not follow it with another period.
Examples: I know that M.D. She is my sister-in-law.
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