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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
Thanks for your question. The question mark separates the title from the subtitle.
Competition Law within the European Union Is Functioning Just Fine, but Do Fines Cut It? An Exploration of the Efficacy of Corporate Fines in Achieving the Goals of EU Competition Law, and the Potential Benefits of Reform.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
No space. You would write “Mark’s.”
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
Good question. The apostrophe should go in the word “family”: “the Adams family’s adventures.”
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
If the last name is Brode, then the plural is Brodes, and the plural possessive is Brodes’.
If the last name is Brodes, then the plural is Brodeses, and the plural possessive is Brodeses’.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
There’s no hard-and-fast rule about how to style chapter numbers before titles, but in a table of contents, I would recommend the following in the example you’ve sent:
Chapter 6. Power Blocker #3: Misplaced Blame
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
Great question. We would write either “the 1970s” or “the ’70s.”
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
Great question! I would follow Bryan Garner (in Garner’s Modern American Usage, Oxford UP, 2009, p. 46), who recommends leaving the term as is (Kohl’s newest location) or rewording (the newest location of Kohl’s).
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
Excellent question. A title is treated as a singular entity, so adding an ‘s after the title is technically correct, but appending an ‘s to any title is awkward. It is usually best to rearrange the sentence: The narrative arc of Wuthering Heights. . . .
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
Thanks for your question! Yes, the plural possessive of Jones is Joneses’.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
Thanks for your question. In MLA style, “part 1” would be included in the “Number” slot on the MLA template of core elements:
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
Great question. In MLA style, an apostrophe is not used to form the plural of numbers, so it is correct to write “1900s.”
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
Yes, a comma should generally separate a date from a time.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
Thanks for your question. Whereas a comma is needed before and after the state in formulations such as “New York, New York,” when the city and state are used as the title of a work, no comma is needed following the name of the state, unless the grammar of the rest of the sentence requires it (After watching the movie New York, New York, we went…[Read more]
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Jennifer A. Rappaport's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
Yes, correct. Please see our related post for examples:
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
Thanks for your question. The possessive of “Camus” is formed the same way it is for “Dumas,” shown above, so you would write “Albert Camus’s novel,” even though the second “s” is not pronounced. Note, though, that there is an alternative practice, not followed by the MLA, that simply adds an apostrophe to proper nouns ending in “s,” so in that…[Read more]
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
Good question. We’ll submit it to Ask the MLA.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
Please see the update to the section on plurals above.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
Thanks for your question. We’ll submit it to Ask the MLA.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
Great question. The period goes inside the single quotation mark.
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