Colons and semicolons are the indie rock of punctuation marks. They’re not mainstream-popular like the period. They aren’t obvious and eager-to-please like the exclamation mark. They’re not ...

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark. In English-written 19th century literature it appeared once in every 205 words, but today it is ...

Semicolon-versus-colon is one of the most fearsome face-offs in the grammar game. Here’s how to come out on top. ... If you replaced those semicolons with more commas, ...

Feelings about the semicolon run strong. Its proper use is a hallmark of literacy. and today we're going to talk about the semicolon. It's the hot new piece of punctuation. Everyone is using it ...

Yes, the colon and semicolon can get pretty hairy but, if you’re not comfortable with them, they’re easy to swerve round. The apostrophe gets wickedly abused – and not just by grocers.

As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write 'a, b and c' not 'a, b, and c'. But when a comma would assist in the meaning of the sentence or helps to resolve ambiguity, it can ...

Periods, commas, and colons are the fine-edged tools writers need to contour the voice they want the world to hear. When we treat writing not only as a structure of pages, paragraphs, sentences ...

Using a colon to introduce a list and semi-colons to separate items in a descriptive list are explained. This short film is from the BBC series, Punctuation Rules. Back to top ...