Showing posts with label Canadian Style Guide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canadian Style Guide. Show all posts

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Also from the Canadian Style Guide (1997):

7.04 Imperatives, exclamations and indirect questions

Use a period after a mild imperative or exclamation:

If you want to know who is going to change this country, go home and look in the mirror.
-- Maude Barlow

U-turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.
-- Margaret Thatcher

Friday, August 27, 2010

From the very witty Canadian Style Guide (1997):

2.03 Nouns with adjectives and participles

a) Hyphenate noun-plus-adjective compounds (in that order), whether used attributively or predicatively:

duty-free goods
tax-exempt bond

b) Hyphenate noun-plus-participle compounds regardless of position:

snow-capped mountains
a time-consuming activity

Exceptions

There are a number of them, including handmade and handwritten.