A rhetorical question can be veiled in irony, so some saw in the percontation point an answer to their quest for a punctuation mark to denote irony or sarcasm. And in the 17th Century, English ...

Written by Here Design’s Philip Cowell and designed by the studio’s co-founder Caz Hildebrand, This Is Me, Full Stop gives voice to 12 everyday punctuation marks and has them explain the jobs they do ...

Continue this pattern, using closing quotation marks only at the very end of the quoted material. Placement with other punctuation: A period or comma always go inside closing quotation marks. ("We ...

As the printing press spread literacy throughout the 15th century, punctuation marks became standardized among writing. Playwright and poet Ben Jonson is credited as the first notable English ...

In French, exclamation points, question marks, colons, and semi-colons (all forms of "high" punctuation ... When French speakers type in English, it can be difficult to break this habit.

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 ...

Presenter Radzi and a group of children visit Manchester Central Library to learn how to identify correct punctuation (inverted commas, full stops, question marks) in a paragraph of a story.

Similarly, writer Alexandra Petri reads between the lines of those who are addicted to Oxford comma, the most controversial punctuation mark in English orthography: 'You are a person who insists ...

The punctuation for integrating academic quotes is a little different than dialogue punctuation. When a quotation ends a sentence and the parenthetical citation is at the end, the period should come ...

which is precisely what the ACT English and SAT Writing and Language sections require. Whenever you receive a text, scan it for potentially misused or missing punctuation marks. A common mistake ...