Liz in Newport Beach, Calif., posed a good question about commas. Consider the following two sentences. "Days are usually great, but, when they aren't great, they still pass in 24 hours." "Every word ...

Punctuation can get you punched. It doesn’t matter if it’s good punctuation or bad. I’ve irked people using either. There was the time that I was suckered into working on a group project to produce a ...

HOUSTON – Proper punctuation is less relevant in an age of fleeting digital communication, and an unscientific survey of Houston teens finds they use very little punctuation in informal correspondence ...

Sept. 24 is National Punctuation Day, a time to think about all those lowly, little dots, lines, and squiggles that adorn the written word. One of the websites promoting the occasion announces, ...

Effective written communication is crucial in the digital age. Common punctuation errors can undermine credibility in professional and academic settings. Mastering comma usage, apostrophes, semicolons ...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has so far directed that two separate emails be sent out to his staff with explicit directions on proper comma usage and many examples, according to a Wednesday CNN ...

Grammar nerds are a committed league who often fight the good fight in the hope of seeing their victories spelled out on the page. But every once in a while, the consequences of proper punctuation ...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has a problem with improper punctuation and his staff is making sure everyone at the State Department knows about it. According to CNN, the former Kansas congressman is ...