Some time ago, one of my former students requested a column on punctuation, specifically, how to use parentheses and dashes.

Many of you are kind enough to share with me multiple forwarded collections of embarrassing headlines from other newspapers, unfortunate misspellings or captions, punctuation puns and dirty limericks.

Narrator: So you think you’ve finished your latest spooky story do you Frank? Have you checked it matches your original purpose? That your sentences flow nicely, the words are in the right order, and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Two big things have been happening on the internet, in relation to orthography. New styles have proliferated; and old ...

Ailing literacy skills across Australia has triggered a major overhaul of one state's education system with grammar and punctuation the areas most in need of improvement. The English syllabus has been ...