AP style explicitly advises against following an organization’s full name with an abbreviation in parentheses unless the ...

Punctuation may seem like a small detail in the grand scheme of writing, but its impact on communication is profound. These tiny symbols—commas, periods, question marks, and more—serve as the silent ...

Use commas for lists, dialogue and complex sentences. The hungry comma chameleon is looking for tasty commas to eat. This literary lunching lizard needs your help to find the hidden commas in each ...

"Rend your cheeks and rub ashes into your hair," said The Spectator, for the semicolon, that "most elegant, elusive of punctuation marks", is all but dead. Use of the semicolon (in lists, or to join ...

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You’ve been using punctuation marks your whole life without even thinking about it. Commas, periods, and question marks are like old friends that you see everyday. But how well do you really know them ...

Of the many issues facing journalism today, probably none is as globally important or as well known as the persecution of the Oxford comma and its valiant defenders. This humble piece of punctuation — ...

Currently, the rule COM812 will flag any calls/lists where the final item has no comma. For the most part, this is useful and I like the consistency it provides. However, there are two issues with ...

When you're writing or typing and begin to list items in consecutive order, do you add a comma prior to the conjunction before the final item? Or not? The inclusion of that final comma is a great ...