That way, for situations with no clear rules, readers of “The Best Punctuation Book Period” could benefit from experts’ own best guesses. The editors who took my punctuation survey disagreed ...

Instead, Punctuation Without Tears keeps the tone light and practical. After a brief chapter on the purpose of punctuation, followed by another setting out three golden rules, the book devotes a ...

His newest book, “Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation,” takes for granted that we all have anxiety—and, therefore, curiosity—about punctuation.

Centuries ago, the word “stickler” meant the judge of a duel who made sure all the rules were obeyed. To author Lynne Truss, those were the good old days. At least people listened to th… ...

And to avoid errors in tough situations like these, it helps to understand single quotation marks and a few other punctuation rules. Opinion A Word, Please: Should you use one, and where does it go?

For punctuation, 1890 was a traumatic year. ... then this book is for you. The rules of punctuation weren’t carved in tablets of stone. They developed over centuries into broad conventions, ...

The muse gets all the press, but here’s a fact: Good writing involves obsessing over punctuation marks. It’s 1 a.m., you’ve got a 5,000-word piece due the next day, and for the last twenty ...

I don’t enjoy studying punctuation nearly as much as researching words, but I appreciate the grave importance of commas, periods, apostrophes and more. I have a T-shirt that says: Let’s… ...

Punctuation Rules Full Stop / Period (.) ... You can also use them to show that a word or a phrase is being used ironically, or for titles of articles, book chapters, ...