Here are some great tips:
In radio, we don't punctuate — at least, not on the air. Nevertheless,
we're honored to meet a woman who is at the pinnacle of punctuation.
Mary Norris is a copy editor at The New Yorker, a magazine
justly famous for the care it takes with words. The work of very
well-known authors has felt the authoritative pressure of her pencil
since 1978 — and after a lifetime of improving the words of others, she
has written her own book, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen.
She tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer that the title comments on a common
mistake, "using 'I' instead of 'me' in phrases such as 'between you and
me,' after any preposition or as the object of a verb." How can you tell
when you're messing it up? Put the "I" first. "You might make a mistake
— I hope not — and say 'between you and I,'" Norris says, "but you
would never make the mistake of saying 'between I and you.'"
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2015/04/04/397094248/just-between-you-me-here-are-some-handy-grammar-tips
I also came across with this article:
http://jadevarden.blogspot.com/2012/09/writing-101-is-gotten-good-grammar.html
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