There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.

Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young ...

Effective written communication is crucial in the digital age. Common punctuation errors can undermine credibility in professional and academic settings. Mastering comma usage, apostrophes, semicolons ...

Inverted commas help as they envelop a quotation in a crisp clasp of reassuring accuracy, or add obvious snark. Their absence, by contrast, casts a post-modern pall of uncertainty over the words.

Punctuation plays a vital role in shaping how writing is understood. From full stops to semicolons, each mark helps guide meaning, structure, and emotion in a sentence. Misuse can lead to ...

When the direct speech (being reported) comes before the reporting clause, the comma separating them should be placed inside the inverted commas/quotation marks — not the other way round: ...

Austin Duffy does not believe in quotation marks. Not once in the 304 pages of his latest book, “Cross,” does Duffy attribute a quote to its speaker, instead relying on em-dashes and spaces ...

3. The Quotation Mark Image: Canva Quotation marks are for direct speech or quoted material. Overusing them can make your writing appear informal or insincere. 4. The Semicolon ...

The Oxford’s manual has also mentioned apostrophe, quotation marks, brackets, hyphens, dashes and ellipses in the chapter on punctuation.

Mark Lasswell is an associate op-ed editor at The Post. Donald Trump’s hush money trial is unfolding mostly according to dismal plan. It’s a smutty, theatrical mashup of “Beauty and the ...