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Never fear the semicolon
Originally posted on Grammar Monkeys on Feb. 23, 2010 The semicolon is a much-misused, often maligned, but elegant and useful piece of punctuation. Neither a period nor a comma, the semicolon links in...
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Why we need punctuation
Originally published on Grammar Monkeys on Sept. 24, 2010. Punctuation marks are like road signs for readers: they show you where you’re going and what’s ahead. If they’re missing or wrong, a reader...
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Why we need hyphens
Originally posted on Grammar Monkeys on Feb. 25, 2011. One of the regular features we do on Twitter is “Why we need hyphens”: phrases that have different meanings depending on whether there’s a hyphen....
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Don’t sweat it: Serial comma
Without a serial comma, and with. Want to start an argument in a group of editors? Bring up the serial comma. The serial (also called Oxford) comma is the comma that comes right before the conjunction...
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Happy National Punctuation Day!
Today, Sept. 24, is National Punctuation Day — admittedly, a created holiday, like National Donut Day, and, like National Donut Day, it’s a holiday that celebrates something worthy of celebration....
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Punctuation: It’s not just for emoticons
Today is National Punctuation Day, on which we celebrate the useful tools around the edges of our keyboards. Some — such as , and . — we use all the time so they are closest at hand and do not even...
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