Our best punctuation mark is dying out; people need to learn how to use it - IN FOCUS: The poor, misunderstood semicolon is under threat. Helen Coffey laments its decline and makes the case for re ...

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I’m a big fan of grammar and punctuation. The comely comma. The handsome hyphen. When I proposed to my wife I paid the skywriter extra to include the question mark.

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 ...

IN FOCUS: The poor, misunderstood semicolon is under threat. Helen Coffey laments its decline and makes the case for re-educating ourselves on its usefulness as the chicest grammatical tool ...

Yes, that most elegant of punctuation marks – sitting elusively somewhere between an en-dash and a colon – is officially under threat. Its usage in English books has been slashed almost in half in the ...