Clarity is essential in life. A misinterpreted sentence, whether verbal or written, may have disastrous consequences. The importance of punctuation marks is clearly demonstrated in the difference ...

Rejoice, my fellow grammar fanatics, for today is National Punctuation Day! If you're* friends who haven't quite grasped (or simply don't care about) the concept of run-on sentences and the Oxford ...

I’ve been thinking about the well punctuated life. As a writer I am concerned with punctuation. Sentences will make more or less sense depending on the use and placement of punctuation marks. Students ...

Your words are your most powerful weapons, and yet it’s easy to undermine yourself in written communication by violating some very simple rules of punctuation. Before I dive deeper into this, a ...

The Romans and the Ancient Greeks didn’t use punctuation at all. They didn’t even have gaps between words. This is called scriptio continua, writing as one continuous string of capital letters, so ...

Punctuation is very important in our writing. Without it, writing would just be a mess of letters and words and we wouldn’t be able to breathe when reading! Full stops are needed at the end of most ...

Ailing literacy skills across Australia has triggered a major overhaul of one state's education system with grammar and punctuation the areas most in need of improvement. The English syllabus has been ...

Forget lists of words and punctuation marks. If you really want to know if a text was written by AI, look for this particular sentence structure.

Scientists think they have worked out how punctuation in texts and emails can convey sarcasm. The simple winking face was found to be the most effective device to convey sarcasm in an ambiguous ...