The main rule to remember with forward slashes is that you rarely need to use them at all. Their main use these days is in URLs: https://www.apostrophes.com.au. If you need to write a fraction in text, you may need to use a forward slash as the line that divides the numerator and denominator (or the
One of the most widely known grammar rules is ‘don’t use a comma before and‘. Unfortunately, while this applies most of the time, there are a number of cases where we must use a comma before and. The rule really should be ‘don’t use a comma before and, unless it is needed to make your
In a word: yes. But there is a qualification: you shouldn’t do this too often. The reason is nothing to do with the words and and but themselves but with the group of words they grammatically belong to (coordinating conjunctions). As the name conjunctions suggests, the role of these words is to connect things and