National Punctuation Day, which took place on Sept. 24, turned 10 this year. The brainchild of northern California education booster Jeff Rubin, the annual event aims to help kids learn about periods, ...

Punctuation basics are easy. A period ends a sentence. A comma represents a pause. A quotation mark indicates a quotation. An apostrophe shows possession. Most people get that. But the finer points — ...

The Romans and the Ancient Greeks didn’t use punctuation at all. They didn’t even have gaps between words. This is called scriptio continua, writing as one continuous string of capital letters, so ...

National Punctuation Day, which took place on Wednesday, turned 10 this year. The brainchild of Northern California education booster Jeff Rubin, the annual event aims to help kids learn about periods ...

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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 oral ...

A back-to-basics test of grammar and punctuation for all 11-year-olds has been unveiled by Michael Gove in a drive to raise standards in primary schools. Up to 600,000 pupils a year, starting from ...

As lawyers, our existence is governed by rules: court rules, procedural rules, evidentiary rules and Bluebook rules, just to name a few. We are not, however, immune to the effects of media influences, ...