Quotation marks have a hierarchy, grammar expert June Casagrande notes, and she advises how to put single quotes in their place.

Let’s eat Grandma vs. Let’s eat, Grandma.” Classic middle school English teacher vibes. In all seriousness, though, these cornball axioms serve a purpose. Kenyon is a writer’s college by name, and we ...

From voice-to-text disasters that include every punctuation mark spoken aloud to screenshots of entire photo galleries sent by accident, these digital mishaps from the older generation have ...

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta emphasised that legislative drafting was a science and an art, stating that even a comma could change the interpretation of a law ...

Voice typing is a super convenient tool that can save you a lot of time and effort. But, to make sure your voice typing is ...

'The apostrophe's chequered history poses enormous challenges not only for learners of English, but clearly for native speakers too'. Photo: Alamy What did the apostrophe ever do to deserve this? To ...

We’re living in a time where we have more technology than ever for sharing our words, but we still constantly get misunderstood. One cause of this is that we simply don’t use enough punctuation in our ...

But what if the biggest giveaway that a text was written by AI isn’t a word, phrase, or punctuation mark, but a particular sentence structure instead? The idea that certain rhythms of sentences might ...

James Joyce's tome 'Finnegans Wake' famously breaks the rules of normal prose through its unusual, dreamlike stream of consciousness, and new work in chaos theory takes a closer look at how Joyce's ...

It seems a day does not go by without seeing someone confidently assert on social media that an em dash is not an indicator of AI-written text. Those social media posts are in response to an ongoing ...