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.

A recent study has found a 50 per cent decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades. The decline accelerates a ...

The most common way to use a semicolon is to help join closely connected ideas in a sentence. These sections must be independent and complete sentences, but closely linked in some way ...

From the relevance of semicolons to confusion over their, there, and they’re, our community have been discussing their ...

While more than half of respondents did not know or understand how to use the punctuation mark correctly. A semicolons use is to connect two parts of a sentence where a conjunction is omitted ...

The punctuation mark is sometimes taken as a sign of affected elitism. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Experts believe that the semicolon (;) is in danger of becoming extinct from the English language because of its lack of use.

Then, if you’re like me, you spend years embarrassed that you don’t use semicolons more and, worse, you aren’t quite sure how. Well, good news. Semicolons aren’t as important as you think.

Unlike a colon, which separates an independent clause from descriptive information, a semicolon links independent clauses of equal standing. Below are some helpful tips on how to use semicolons ...

It may not have been the function originally envisaged by Italian scholar and printer Aldus Pius Manutius the Elder – whose work contains the first recorded use of a semicolon in 1494 – but at ...

Beyond that, in his opinion, they’re worthless. “When I come across writers who use the semicolon, I am always left with the impression that they used it for no other reason than to show off ...