A moment's hesitation... Yes, a full stop here – but shouldn’t there be a comma there? Or would a hyphen be better? Punctuation can be a nuisance; it is often simply neglected. Wrong! The most recent ...

It is a piece of punctuation that has divided writers and authors for centuries. Novelists including Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen have not shied away from using them, but that has not stopped ...

You were never taught formal English grammar, or you discover that some of much of the grammar and usage you were taught is nonsense. You feel a need to learn more, but where and how? Garner’s Modern ...