Category: Grammar

This post is part of the Canadian Style series. 1.17 Numbers When abbreviating the words number or numbers within the body of a text, use No. or Nos. but not the symbol #, which is reserved for tabular and statistical material.

This post is part of the Canadian Style series. 8.13 Titles Quotation marks should enclose the titles of the following within footnotes, bibliographies, and bodies of text: newspaper, magazine, and periodical articles book chapters short stories from collections lectures papers songs poems from collections dissertations theses unpublished manuscripts radio and TV programmes

This post is part of the Canadian Style series. 2.02 Compound nouns and nouns in compounds (e) Hyphenate nouns of family relationship formed with great and in-law. father-in-law great-aunt

This post is part of the Canadian Style series. 5.24 Comparative and inclusive numbers (c) Opinions differ on the proper forms for inclusive numbers written as numerals. To ensure clarity, abbreviate second numbers according to the following principles. Repeat all digits in numbers below 100 (e.g. 62–98). Repeat all digits where the first number is… Continue reading Canadian Style Tip #13: Comparative and inclusive numbers

This post is part of the Canadian Style series. 4.17 Capitalization: Time references and historical periods and events Capitalize the names of months and days, of holidays and holy days, of historical and geological periods and events, and of parliamentary sessions.

This post is part of the Canadian Style series. 2.13 Hyphenation: Points of the compass Write as one word compass directions consisting of two points, but use a hyphen after the first point in those compounds consisting of three points:: northwest southeast east-northeast south-southwest

This post is part of the Canadian Style series. 5.25 Roman numerals Roman numerals are becoming increasingly rare, but they still have the following uses: names of rulers, aristocrats, and the names of ships, racing cars and space vehicles numbers of volumes, chapters, tables, plates, acts and other divisions of a book or play Government… Continue reading Canadian Style Tip #10: Roman numerals

This post is part of the Canadian Style series. 7.08 Periods properly omitted Do not use periods with acronyms and initialisms and with abbreviations of compass directions, degrees, memberships, and distinctions, SI/metric unit symbols, chemical symbols or mathematical abbreviations.

This post is part of the Canadian Style series. 13.05 Make your point clearly Avoid empty introductory phrases and padding that obscure the meaning of a sentence. These include expressions such as “I would like to begin by indicating clearly to you that . . .” and “If this step, which may be necessary in… Continue reading Canadian Style Tip #8: Make your point clearly

This post is part of the Canadian Style series. 15.04 Names of inhabited places Only two municipalities in Canada have two official forms of their names, one in English and one in French: Grand Falls and Caissie Cape in New Brunswick, which are also known officially as Grand-Sault and Cap-des-Caissie. All other municipalities have only… Continue reading Canadian Style Tip #7: Names of inhabited places