If only it had turned 60. Too many of us made it to adulthood without mastering basics of punctuation. We've all seen the result: signs offering "egg's benedict," comma splices, run-on sentences ...

Too many of us made it to adulthood without mastering basics of punctuation. We’ve all seen the result: signs offering “egg’s benedict,” comma splices, run-on sentences and other errors.

As staid and unfashionable as it might sound, proper grammar, punctuation and word choice still matter because they provide structure and clarity. Lawyers' tools are words, in both writing and ...

Complex systems researchers in Poland studied works of literature across eight European languages and showed that the placement of punctuation was very consistent.