By 2022, there was one semicolon in every 390 words; that’s a 47% decrease just from 2000 to 2022. What punctuation mark does Gen Z dislike? READER'S DIGEST, GETTY IMAGES It’s the semicolon.

Punctuation plays a vital role in shaping how writing is understood. From full stops to semicolons, each mark helps guide meaning, structure, and emotion in a sentence. Misuse can lead to ...

Yes, that most elegant of punctuation marks – sitting elusively somewhere between an en-dash and a colon – is officially under threat. Its usage in English books has been slashed almost in ...

They were attending the first New York screening of “ Rebel With a Clause,” a new documentary about a woman who set up a “grammar table” in all 50 states for passers-by to stop and ask her ...

The modern function of punctuation, which is to separate phrases on the basis of their grammatical role (i.e., setting off a subordinate clause or a list with a comma or using a period to mark the ...

As staid and unfashionable as it might sound, proper grammar, punctuation and word choice still matter because they provide structure and clarity. Lawyers' tools are words, in both writing and ...

Cecelia Watson, the author of Semicolon, a guide to that punctuation mark’s correct usage, says it has a kind of “urgency to it, almost like a little arrow that’s missing its arrowhead.

Even between languages, sentence punctuation seemed to follow the same mathematical rules. The researchers looked at texts in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, German and Polish.

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 ...

The words and the punctuation marks do what I tell them to, and I don’t need The Man imposing limitations on me. I’ll use punctuation marks you’ve never heard of. Look: That’s a hedera!