Style guides have made recent updates to their punctuation rules. Grammar columnist June Casagrande suggests ...

A few years back I set out to write a comprehensive punctuation book — one that laid out the rules for proper punctuation in every situation imaginable. How naïve I was. You don’t have to spend a lot ...

Experienced writers know this elegant punctuation mark is the best way to join closely related clauses; really, it’s the only way. “It’s too subtle,” author Jenny Hammer says. “People would rather ...

It’s tempting to skip a period at the end of a sentence Tempting to overuse exclamation points!!! very tempting to MeSs with capital letters. Dont use apostrophes. Ask a question and ignore the proper ...

Lynne Truss fears the English language could be in its death throes. Proper, written English, that is — the kind with correctly placed apostrophes, elegantly positioned semicolons, commas in all the ...