Friday 5 July 2013

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 13

Telegraph 0―Guardian 1:


  
As well as the accurate use of the possessive apostrophe, The Guardian offers better capitalization and paragraphing: the initial capital of the Telegraph’s ‘Societies’ is superfluous, and it’s nonsensical to split this short quotation into separate paragraphs. This is becoming a habit in online journalism; the BBC is another frequent offender.

A paragraph may in some instances be a single sentence; but a sentence is not a paragraph.

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