Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Standard English Conventions is one of two major question categories on the SAT Writing and Language section. When sitting for the ...

Punctuation is a set of specific marks or symbols that we used to express the meaning of our sentences clearly and to make the flow of the text smooth. It shows us where we need to pause, it separates ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last week, we discussed the various ways of punctuating the following sentence: His question “How do I get enough to eat ...

Commas, semicolons and question marks are so commonplace it seems as if they were always there – but that’s not the case. Keith Houston explains their history. As readers and writers, we’re intimately ...

Gareth Rees answers a question from Iain Wood in Belgium about the use of apostrophes in some names. 'When you say Christmas it sounds like /krismas/ and when you say Christchurch for example, it ...