Maybe I’m reading too much into things here, but her office softball team in her Senate days was called the Oxford Kamalas. I ...

Placement with other punctuation: A period or comma always go inside closing quotation marks. ("We hope to win the game," he said.) A dash, semicolon, question mark and exclamation point go inside ...

Speaker 1: Commas are punctuation marks that are vital for helping us to be understood correctly. Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) Can you believe I wrote that on my dating profile? Speaker 1 ...

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Connections is a game from the New York Times that challenges you to find the association between words. It sounds easy, but ...

The students of essay writing are too occupied with learning vocabulary and grammar to spare a thought to punctuation which, grammarians and literary greats argue, is the ineluctable part of grammar.

What's in an apostrophe anyway? Last night, President Joe Biden called all of Donald Trump's supporters "garbage." Or did he? The much-debated gaffe came during a Zoom call between Biden and the ...

Might a seismic decision on the American presidency come down to an apostrophe, only the most misunderstood and misused punctuation mark in the history of American mailboxes and home welcome mats?

As AI complicates muddies the waters, Sean wonders if it is best for photographers to steal it all, but make something new ...

Might a seismic decision on the American presidency come down to an apostrophe, only the most misunderstood and misused punctuation mark in the history of American mailboxes and home welcome mats?

If punctuation marks could speak, they might remonstrate us, “How could you do this to us now, after using us all the time?” Young Japanese today are said to feel that use of the “full stop ...

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