As a new owner of an iPhone 5 that can take dictation, I’m still playing around with Siri and the various places and times that it makes sense to use my voice instead of the keyboard. Obviously, a ...

The next time you go sending a message with punctuation marks, you might want to leave them out, unless you want to appear like a know-it-all busybody, that is. According to new research out of ...

There’s no denying that commas are helpful little flecks of punctuation. They allow us to separate written clauses and do good work when especially numerous or complicated groups of things exist in a ...

While we all slip up from time to time, there are some basic punctuation mistakes you should never make in formal writing. For example, don't confuse "it's" and "its," don't use an apostrophe to ...

You probably already know the interrobang, thanks to its excellent moniker and increasing popularity. Though the combination exclamation point and question mark can be replaced by using one of each ...

The semicolon is the comma's first cousin, but it works a little bit harder; it also makes you look smarter. So what are the practical ways to implement this little grammatical workhorse? Read on to ...

A discussion about punctuation marks is like opening the Pandora`s Box. Out come the full stop (.), the comma (,), the semi colon (;), the colon (), the question mark (?), the exclamation mark (!), ...

Most of us are familiar with “Boomer ellipses,” or the ominous ”...” some texters use in place of a full stop or comma. Even double spacing can reveal your age; older typists prefer it, especially ...

Texting may have made us better communicators in terms of frequency, but can we say that about our accuracy? The 21st century and our efficiency-above-all approach may have left grammar behind. As ...

If you’ve spent the weekend enjoying a good book in the May sun, you might not have been thinking about mathematics. But if you were reading a book in a Western language, there’s a good chance that ...