According to recent research, the semicolon has declined in use in British books by 50%. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum explores why the misunderstood punctuation mark is under threat.

In a prairie full of wildflowers, Erica Henry got down on all fours, then ducked under a low mesh tent, one of 10 homemade ...

REID: I can't think of it. SEMICOLON: That's fine, that's totally fine. I'm a punctuation mark, and I actually go back a long way. I was born in Venice, in 1494. A time when writers were very ...

Sometimes all it takes to make a new subgenre is an apostrophe. With just one hardworking punctuation mark, the newly christened J'RPG describes a refreshingly French spin on Japanese turn-based ...

punctuation and grammar in context will be assessed through Gap Filling/ Editing/Transformation exercises. Ten out of 12 questions will have to be attempted. III. Writing Skills 10 marks 4.

REID: I can't think of it. SEMICOLON: That's fine, that's totally fine. I'm a punctuation mark, and I actually go back a long way. I was born in Venice, in 1494. A time when writers were very ...

The 1983 ABC movie “The Day After” was a landmark moment that proved contentious even before it aired, as a new documentary shows. By Alissa Wilkinson The latest installment to the long ...

“I think part of the reason this trend has taken off is because the em dash is both a cool punctuation mark — it’s really versatile, it’s really elegant-looking — and it has a name that clearly ...