Writers can misuse or overuse hyphens, em dashes, colons and, to some editors' disgust, semicolons. Using a period is a ...

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As well as using them to separate out key information, or divide up different clauses, commas can also completely change the meaning of a sentence if they're not used correctly. Watch this video ...

A writer's dilemma: balancing efficiency with agency in a post-AI world, wondering what we are losing sight of ...

A comma is often where you would pause for a breath before continuing. In a long sentence, you can use commas to separate out extra information and make the sentence easier to read. A clause is ...

Therefore, in the first sentence, sticklers might suggest ... For example, consistent use of the Oxford comma. Writers should use the Oxford comma in all or none of their lists that contain ...

When reading The Globe and content from other media outlets, does it seem like they use specific spellings for every word? Or refuse to use certain words? Or maybe you’ve noticed that numbers are ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and ...

Evan Weaver, a current Allentown Police officer, is on administrative leave. His former colleague, 47-year-old Jason Krasley, retired from the APD in 2021.

ATLANTA —Gray Media said it has revised its group-wide policy regarding the role of generative AI to acknowledge the ...