Distressed by the disappearing question mark? You don’t have to be an outspoken member of the punctuation police to know the significance those swirls, curls, dots and dashes play in every ...

Some shifts in punctuation practice make their way, over time, to grammar books and official acceptance. Imagine Jane Austen starting a book today with the sentence, “It is a truth universally ...

It can be used to help develop the characters and plot Punctuation is used in direct speech to separate spoken words, or dialogue, from the rest of a story. The words spoken by a character sit ...