I do not know who first observed the difference between “Let’s eat, Grandma,” with a comma, and “Let’s eat Grandma,” without. One version expresses a relatively polite invitation to dinner; the other ...

As an author, I love the em dash — that lovely little diversion from the main idea — but I never meant for it to go viral via ...

As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders last ...

A conjunction is a word, or words, used to connect two clauses together. Words such as 'although', 'because' or 'when' . A subordinating clause is a part of a sentence that adds additional information ...

Click here for the original audio and to read more. The semicolon has been described as a "graceful pause" in writing. But this graceful punctuation mark is being forgotten.

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