The September issue of the Peecolon Monthly Report was about "punctuation marks."First of all, what exactly are "punctuation ...

We all know how important punctuation marks are in our scripts, because punctuation fills our writing with expression. We pause, stop, emphasise, or question using a comma, a period, an exclamation ...

Punctuation marks are the flesh and bones of every modern written language. Sometimes, missing out a comma can completely change the meaning of a sentence (for example, “Let’s eat Grandpa!” means ...

I hope you can tell me about the difference between punctuation marks such as the semicolon (;), the colon (:) and the comma (,) and between round brackets and square brackets. Thank you for writing ...

Teaching those pesky punctuation marks? Hold your students accountable with the Punctuation Mark Assessment Test that addresses all (14) punctuation marks, including the often forgotten hyphens, ...

Most punctuation marks describe sounds or silences. They are attempts to replicate in writing things that we do naturally when speaking. They tell you when to stop and start: the short pause of a ...

Forget black rhinos and the Amazon rainforest: there's something arguably just as precious joining the endangered species list, only this time, it's a grammatical rather than biological extinction ...

Today is a special holiday! Happy National Punctuation Day. Punctuation can be both the great love and the occasional bane of a writer's existence, and it's not strange that a love affair may crop up ...

Several writers and inventors in the last century tried to introduce new marks of punctuation into the English language – but they all failed. Keith Houston tells their story. In the 1930s and ’40s, ...