Exclamation Mark – Show emotion or urgency The exclamation mark expresses strong feelings like surprise, joy, or urgency. It should be used sparingly, especially in formal writing. Examples: ...

Gen Z seem to have abandoned the ; Renaissance printer and typographer Aldus Manutius invented the semicolon mark in the 15th century; it appeared for the first time in 1494 in Manutius’s De Aetna.

It was meant to show a pause slightly longer than a comma but shorter than a short stop. Using Google Ngram Viewer, a tool developed with Harvard University to spot writing patterns over time ...

But it's far from the first punctuation casualty, said The Indian Express. The pilcrow, a mark used to signify the start of a new paragraph, slipped "into obscurity" a few hundred years ago.

Keep reading to discover 12 little-known punctuation marks that grammar nerds—and your third grade teacher—will love. Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more knowledge, humor ...

IN FOCUS: The poor, misunderstood semicolon is under threat. Helen Coffey laments its decline and makes the case for re-educating ourselves on its usefulness as the chicest grammatical tool ...

Yes, that most elegant of punctuation marks – sitting elusively somewhere between an en-dash and a colon – is officially under threat. Its usage in English books has been slashed almost in half in the ...

So, today, Cocogun is launching a new punctuation mark: the am dash. The am dash enables writers of all kinds, from journalists to authors to copywriters, to take back control.

By Blake Ursch / World-Herald staff writer Sep 24, 2015 Updated Oct 16, 2019 0 ...

Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not quite true.

The film humorously explores the world of punctuation, particularly focusing on the importance of periods, exclamation points, and question marks in writing. It presents a fictional "period room ...