Using corpora in Legal English A corpus is a large collection of written and/or spoken material collected to show the...

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1. Capitalize the first word of a sentence. For example: The client called three times. Do not put the matter...

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1) When two words are made into one word, use the apostrophe where one or more letters have been removed....

1) Use the colon to introduce a list. For example: We need a lawyer who is: aggressive educated well connected...

1) Use the semicolon in place of a period to separate two complete sentences where the conjunction – and, but,...

1) Use commas to separate a series of three or more words, groups of words, or phrases. For example: The...