The ’90s were truly a magical time. You could punctuate a sentence without making someone mad. You could go to the Renaissance Faire without having to witness some dude in a gimp suit trying to get ...

College English prof Michael Leddy teaches you five quick-and-dirty rules for improving your punctuation skills. For example: Complete sentences that are joined by a coordinating conjunction (and, but ...

The future of a pair of provocative criminal justice issues – parole for felons, and New York state’s strict drug laws – remains in the air, as a commission proposing sweeping prison sentencing ...

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I've been running into this a lot lately. How do you punctuate a sentence when ending with a url? The extra period just seems wrong, and leaving it off seems even more wronger. And putting the url in ...

Punctuation is very important in our writing. Without it, writing would just be a mess of letters and words and we wouldn’t be able to breathe when reading! Full stops are needed at the end of most ...

An anecdote about a costly missing comma in a telegram (told various ways) has been a favorite of teachers for years. It is employed to illustrate the effect that even as little as one lone ...

Punctuation can make a world of difference in our understanding of written communication. Consider, for example, the following sentences: “Let’s eat, Uncle Larry!” and “Let’s eat Uncle Larry!” Each ...