This pattern of punctuation can derail productive dialogue, leading to endless back-and-forth without resolution. This tendency to assign blame and focus on "who started it" is counterproductive and ...

She wanted to know why I was mad. I didn’t know I was mad. My wife said a younger family member wanted to know what she did ...

If you hang out with anyone under 30, you might have noticed that punctuation has been getting a bad rap lately, especially when it comes to texting. While putting a period at the end of a sentence ...

"Rend your cheeks and rub ashes into your hair," said The Spectator, for the semicolon, that "most elegant, elusive of punctuation marks", is all but dead. Use of the semicolon (in lists, or to join ...