Forget black rhinos and the Amazon rainforest: there’s something arguably just as precious joining the endangered species list, only this time, it’s a grammatical rather than biological extinction ...

The Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology will confer an honorary degree on Raila Odinga in December. That, as the justification goes, is because of his exemplary work.

Punctuation marks may be small, but they carry a lot of weight—shaping tone, clarifying meaning and even signaling the writer’s personality. I adore the em dash; I tend to be a bit of a drama queen ...

With dialogue, specific punctuation is needed. Most often, commas and periods go within the quotation marks, but there are some forms of punctuation and examples that go outside of the quotation marks ...

We're using semicolons less and less; the apostrophe still stumps most of us. Meanwhile, @, #, :, ) have new meanings and are performing new roles. Take a look. “Semicolon usage in British English ...

A new study shows a sharp decline in the semicolon across English literature—nearly a 50% drop in just two decades. Once a favorite of literary giants like Virginia Woolf, this tiny punctuation mark ...