Let’s hear it for the exclamation point! And what about the comma, and its cousin, the semi-colon? Without punctuation our language would be as difficult to read as an unedited “Trivially Speaking” ...

Punctuation marks aren't just resigned to the symbols on your keyboard. There are plenty more - like the exclamation comma - that never made it into type but nonetheless exist. The exclamation comma ...

One of my students once told me that when she writes something she always puts a comma wherever she thinks someone should take a breath. She defended this by saying this is what they do in a musical ...

Comma was being tried in the Court of Grammar and Punctuation. The interrogators included Full Stop, Question Mark, Exclamation Point, Apostrophe, Hyphen, and Dash. You are really no use whatsoever.

Even the lowly comma — and hyphen — get their 15 minutes of fame. Actually, make that 24 hours, for today is National Punctuation Day, a time to enthuse over exclamation points, brake for brackets and ...

Anyone who knows, or intuitively understands, that two words describing a noun are hyphenated ends up writing some compounds ...

Recently in this space we talked about how, when two punctuation marks bump up against each other, one can sometimes preclude the other. For example, a phrase that would normally be followed by a ...