Sending out holiday greetings this year? Christmas cards, emails, posts on the family Facebook page and party invitations are all wonderful opportunities to embarrass yourself with punctuation and ...

The blue books and grammar packets of middle school may seem a little fuzzy now, but it's never too late to brush up on the writing basics. Get a quick refresher on those colon and comma rules ASAP, ...

As lawyers, our existence is governed by rules: court rules, procedural rules, evidentiary rules and Bluebook rules, just to name a few. We are not, however, immune to the effects of media influences, ...

Look at you, Miss Fancy Texty Pants. What with your schmancy punctuation and your insistence on writing out every word and your hoity-toity capitalizations. What with your maddening refusal to use ...

A few titles are always capped up, whether you name the person or not (eg the King, the Pope, Archbishop of XX). But our style generally is to minimise the use of capital letters. Political job titles ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We talk about words a lot in this area of the paper. We’ve written about mispronunciation, strange neologisms, pet peeves and more. In ...

Grammar and punctuation: the two most irritant-inducing things since time began when not used properly. Of course, we students have been spelling since those dreaded tests back in primary school but, ...