Even if we’re wizards of literature or native speakers, we all slip up from time to time. We can forget how to spell and even ...

At first glance, my emails are polite and warm, after all "I'm just checking" in on a deadline but "no worries either way".

Use punctuation to clarify meaning in sentences. Watch out! These goat punks have been playing around by kicking the punctuation out of sentences. Join a punk crew to put the punctuation back and ...

Is nothing sacred anymore? Now we can’t even text — text, the thing millennials practically invented on T9 keyboards — without being called out by Gen Z. The generation who banned skinny jeans and ...

Punctuation plays a vital role in shaping how writing is understood. From full stops to semicolons, each mark helps guide meaning, structure, and emotion in a sentence. Misuse can lead to confusion, ...

"Rend your cheeks and rub ashes into your hair," said The Spectator, for the semicolon, that "most elegant, elusive of punctuation marks", is all but dead. Use of the semicolon (in lists, or to join ...

Ben Duke, of Philadelphia, has sent me a photograph of the front of a store in Brierly Hall, England. The sign reads: Ben calls this signage “The Four Aprostrophe’s of the Apocalypse” and informs me ...

The film follows a young student named Jimmy as he learns about sentences in school. Through various examples, he discovers the difference between telling sentences, which end with a period, and ...

You’ve been using punctuation marks your whole life without even thinking about it. Commas, periods, and question marks are like old friends that you see everyday. But how well do you really know them ...