A lot of people are taught that a comma goes anywhere you want to indicate a pause. On the surface, that system appears to work out fine. Commas often do just that. But not always. Following this ...

Punctuation. It accompanies our written form of language. It helps us to better understand things when we read them. Let's take this phrase as an example. Without punctuation it is a dangerous ...

A few weeks ago I mentioned in this space that serial commas, also called Oxford commas, are a matter of style. So either "red, white and blue" or "red, white, and blue" can be correct depending on ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. LONDON: A report that Oxford University had changed its comma rule has left some punctuation obsessives alarmed, annoyed, and distraught ...

Robert Frost wrote his famous poem “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening” in mid-June, 1922. He’d been up all the short night working on a long poem “New Hampshire.” By early morning he was exhausted.

What's your position on the Oxford comma? Atrocious. It can be blamed for illiteracy nationwide. The Oxford comma—also known as the “Harvard comma” or the “snooty comma”—is the comma that precedes the ...