Comma was being tried in the Court of Grammar and Punctuation. The interrogators included Full Stop, Question Mark, Exclamation Point, Apostrophe, Hyphen, and Dash. You are really no use whatsoever.

Yesterday marked the 11th annual National Punctuation Day, a day of celebration for word nerds and grammar enthusiasts. To quote the National Punctuation Day website, the holiday honors “the lowly ...

It is one of the most commonly used punctuations, and also the most commonly misused. The comma, however, may be on its way out, according to a US academic. Professor John McWhorter, an associate ...

Reporting other people’s speeches or writings is a technical exercise in which punctuation marks play strategic roles. Whether it is in direct speech or the indirect, punctuation marks such as the ...

In a previous column, the important role that punctuation marks, notably the comma, full stop and semicolon play in giving meaning, direction and flow to writing was discussed. A missing or carelessly ...