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 ...

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 ...

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.

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… ...

The ‘Giggly Squad’ cohost spoke with PEOPLE about the publication of her new book ‘How to Giggle: A Guide to Taking Life Less Seriously’ Paige DeSorbo is reflecting on her new title ...

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?

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… ...

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 ...

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, ...

One of the difficulties about punctuation is that a lot of it is down to personal preference or “style”. And that isn’t just a recent thing, to be blamed on textspeak and the belief that the ...