Why is punctuation important? Writing without punctuation is like living life without breaks and pauses. A small mark with ...

"When the University of Oxford was tasked with compiling one, it asked the public to help with the workload by sending quotes showing ... to identify syntactic rules governing the order of these ...

The story should include a headline and quotes from people you’ve interviewed ... Entries are subject to the official rules outlined herein (the “Official Rules”). Entries become sole ...

Practice integrating direct quotations seamlessly and using neutral phrasing ... and they may fail to retain grammar rules that aren’t anchored to practical application. However, when we teach grammar ...

Some lament the ‘LOL’ or deride the ‘delulu,’ but I’m not one of them. I grew up with smartphones and think that, just as the invention of the printing press gave us words like “clique ...

In what was a debate over which rules of grammar to follow in reading a law ... to sell voting equipment to the county with price quotes that were public records. The board had not sought sealed ...

We use oxymorons all the time, but have you ever thought about how weird they actually are? A closer look at these ...

“I tend to follow the rules of grammar,” said Maren Swanson, a retired lawyer in Burnsville, “but one I hate and tend not to follow is the ‘proper’ use of the word ‘whom.’ Wh ...

“In this time of turmoil and global unrest, it’s kind of fun to think about deviled eggs.” PATRICIA ALTSCHUL, of the reality show “Southern Charm,” who is a regular commenter on the ...

On the other hand, these are grammar “rules” you can safely ignore. Everyone, everybody, and close cousin each are singular, so words that refer to them should also be singular. Or ...

Less than a quarter of Gen Z use periods, commas, and quotation marks in their casual communications. In comparison, more than half of people (55%) over the age of 65 say they’re always sticklers for ...

The rules of crosswords are part of a rich set of conventions shared by those who solve them—and they are intimately related to the grammar of language in general. Just as toddlers develop a ...