Lederer has long been one of America's most popular experts on language and grammar, but here he seems to be taking his cue from Lynn Truss in focusing on the ins and outs of commas, semi-colons and ...

First it came for the commas which are commonly used to denote pauses and breaks in a sentence but are kind of hard to remember and find on the phone keyboard so what's the point right? And now it's ...

SOME British readers might wonder why a London-based publication uses double inverted commas like "these". And some American readers may wonder why commas and full stops (er, periods) sometimes appear ...

In order to make your writing clear, you need to use commas. As well as using them to separate out key information, or divide up different clauses, commas can also completely change the meaning of a ...

People who care about grammar love the serial comma, aka the Oxford or Harvard comma. They love it because they were instructed to use it in school, and they love it because it supposedly reduces ...

Grammar lovers today were saddened, shocked, and mightily displeased at the news that the P.R. department of the University of Oxford has decided to drop the comma for which it is so justly famed. As ...

Experienced writers know this elegant punctuation mark is the best way to join closely related clauses; really, it’s the only way. “It’s too subtle,” author Jenny Hammer says. “People would rather ...

If you want to know more about commas, paragraphs and semi-colons, but found Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves rather off-putting, then Jenny Haddon and Elizabeth Hawksley's useful, motivating and ...