A new study has found that use of semicolons has declined by half over the last couple of decades. Once known as the ...

A recent study suggests a significant decrease in semicolon usage in English books, with punctuation down nearly 50% in two ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

67% of Gen Z say they see the value in the punctuation mark, despite not being inclined to use it often. “That gap between ...