The Best Writing About Punctuation. Full Stop.

How we came to represent (through inky marks) the vagaries of the mind, inflections of the voice, and intensity of feeling.

At the same time, I found a better way to make a point.

Plus: a brief digression into why The New Yorker hyphenates “teen-ager.”

It cares not for your rules.

For most people, a stray comma isn’t the end of the world. But in some cases, the exact placement of a punctuation mark can cost huge sums of money.

Research has found that an author’s use of punctuation can be extremely revealing.

Why do people care so much about a piece of — no offense — punctuation?

The punctuation mark of the ellipsis is perhaps the most unusual mark in the English language, for punctuation marks are designed to convey meaning by indicating relationships between ideas, but the ellipsis does the exact opposite. It simply indicates that something has been omitted.

There’s been a lot of ink spilled on the Oxford comma, the comma that goes before “and” in a list of three or more things. Is it a grammatical must or an unnecessary blight?

We would all be better off without it.

Once and for all, you can find the definitive ranking of English grammar punctuation here from worst to best (according to me).

In the age of the internet, we are all writers. Correct grammar and punctuation are key to making a good impression. Grammar geek Mark Nichol, a writer at Daily Writing Tips, picks five of the best grammar and punctuation books, and tells us why bad grammar leads to anarchy.

A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.