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Style guides have made recent updates to their punctuation rules. Grammar columnist June Casagrande suggests ...

Some time ago, one of my former students requested a column on punctuation, specifically, how to use parentheses and dashes. Before I can explain these oddities, I need to review the primary rules of ...

4-A. By Competition Committee; to allow League personnel to consult with on-field officials when considering disqualifications for both flagrant football acts and non-football acts without being ...

America’s biggest banks would be allowed to hold billions of dollars less in capital on their books under proposals unveiled Thursday, easing rules put in place after the 2008 financial crisis that ...

With spoken English you can trust your instincts but with punctuation you should stick to the rules. When it comes to grammar and word usage, English speakers can trust their instincts. For example, ...

Soon after becoming General Motors’ vice president of global human resources in 2009, Mary Barra used those two words to replace a clunky employee dress code that had grown to ten pages long. One ...

We take them for granted, but they are the backbone of how we write. Where would we be if you couldn’t emphasize your shock by ending your sentence with “?!” or using “;” to signal a pause? The scene ...

The “rules-based international order” was never a set of neutral rules. It was a story the U.S. told — about itself, its power and its right to bend norms when convenient. In January, that story ...

Advice abounds on how, when and whom to date. What are your best rules for navigating early romance? By Daniel Jones and Miya Lee Three decades ago, the best-selling book “The Rules: Time-tested ...

Happy New Year! I hope everyone’s 2026 is full of ernes and ATPs. Every year, we get a new version of the rulebook from USA Pickleball, which serves as the defacto guidelines for the sport globally.

Should people use the Oxford comma? Is there a correct number of exclamation points per email? If someone ends a casual text with a period, does that mean they’re mad at you? This hour: punctuation ...