To discuss part of this, we have to introduce the concept of the “attributive tag.” These happen in journalism a lot, since we attribute a lot. In the sentence “ ‘This plan will cause our taxes to go ...

does not have a simple answer. We introduced the concept of omitting a comma as a second punctuation mark in attributive tags, as in “Will this plan cause our taxes to go up?” he asked, but including ...

Today is Veterans Day … or should that be “Veterans’ Day” or even “Veteran’s Day”? This wasn’t even an issue until 1954. Before then, Nov. 11 was called “Armistice Day ...