National Punctuation Day commemorates all punctuation on September 24. A period, a comma, a semicolon, a question mark, and an exclamation point are examples of some of the punctuation used in writing ...

Choz Cunningham created a punctuation mark with a similar purpose and called it the “Snark Mark”, he used a period followed by a tilde (.~) at the end of a sentence to indicate snark or a sarcastic ...

Punctuation is an important part of grammar for all ages. It’s the difference between “let’s eat grandma” and “let’s eat, grandma!”One Vermont school held a celebration of sentence structure on ...

This test shows that chatbots are certainly not grammar snobs and they “get it” even if words are misspelled and punctuation ...

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I have said that I stand by the Oxford Comma. When the great debates about the Oxford Comma rage, I rush to its defense. I very much believe the Oxford Comma is ...

Semicolon use by Americans has dropped by 51% since the early 2000s to once every 378 words; younger Americans say they still ...

If you don't know how to punctuate an adverb clause or couldn't advise someone when to use a semicolon rather than a colon—even with a gun to your head—consider the two standards for punctuation in ...

I don’t know about you, but this year flew by. I feel like I looked up after summer and it was Thanksgiving, and now here we are at year’s end. As the sun sets on the end of this year — and if you ...

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 ...

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for.