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 ...
Punctuation is a set of specific marks or symbols that we used to express the meaning of our sentences clearly and to make the flow of the text smooth. It shows us where we need to pause, it separates ...
The muse gets all the press, but here’s a fact: Good writing involves obsessing over punctuation marks. It’s 1 a.m., you’ve got a 5,000-word piece due the next day, and for the last twenty minutes you ...
WHAT is punctuation? According to Concise Oxford English Dictionary, punctuation means “marks, such as full stop, comma and brackets, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and ...
A few years ago while copy editing an article, I was shocked to see something like this: “I lecture my sales staff about what I call ‘me syndrome,’” Jones said. What shocked me was the punctuation.