They could end in a question mark or an exclamation mark. Full stops and commas. Full stops and commas are punctuation marks. A full stop ends a sentence. A comma shows a pause, breaks up a list ...

Some once common punctuation marks have fallen out of fashion, while new ones have been suggested to keep up with the way we write and speak today. Here are five punctuation marks that have either ...

Continue this pattern, using closing quotation marks only at the very end of the quoted material. Placement with other punctuation: A period or comma always go inside closing quotation marks. ("We ...

Punctuation marks are the flesh and bones of every modern written language. Sometimes, missing out a comma can completely change the meaning of a sentence (for example, “Let’s eat Grandpa!” ...

A question mark ( ? ) is used to close a direct question. (What time is it?) Do not use a question mark with an indirect question. (He asked if we knew the time.) Put a question mark inside closing ...

Written by Here Design’s Philip Cowell and designed by the studio’s co-founder Caz Hildebrand, This Is Me, Full Stop gives voice to 12 everyday punctuation marks and has them explain the jobs they do ...

In a previous column, the important role that punctuation marks, notably the comma, full stop and semicolon play in giving meaning, direction and flow to writing was discussed. A missing or ...

Whenever you receive a text, scan it for potentially misused or missing punctuation marks. A common mistake in text messages, which also appears frequently on the ACT and SAT, is a misused apostrophe.

Punctuation, however, is not restricted merely to subtlety and suggestion; it is also deployed to emphasise and assert where words stand incapacitated. For a swatch, the mighty exclamation mark ...

Or rather, they are unnoticed until they break. In this essay, I consider this infrastructure of material things alongside a very different infrastructure: the punctuation marks that dictate the ...

If punctuation marks could speak, they might remonstrate us, “How could you do this to us now, after using us all the time?” Young Japanese today are said to feel that use of the “full stop ...