If you passed the third grade, you’re probably familiar with common punctuation marks like periods, commas, question marks and apostrophes, even if you’re not always sure how and when to use them.

The job of punctuation marks is to orchestrate our reader’s attention, telling him which words belong together and which are separate. If we want to end a sentence, we use a period, a question ...

French. Yes, the whole language. In French, exclamation points, question marks, colons, and semi-colons (all forms of "high" punctuation) should always have a space preceding them. For example ...

Close scrutiny of a recent image from the Webb Space Telescope revealed some questionable punctuation ... Now a genuine question mark has been discovered, in the corner of a recent Webb telescope ...