Welcome to Pedants’ Corner – or is it Pedant’s Corner? Or perhaps just Pedants Corner? We grammar fanatics often get attacked for pedantry – by the way, I’m so easy-going that I think all three ...

Reading good prose should be like listening to a well-constructed piece of music: it should have rhythm; it should have cadences; in short, it should have style. In that sentence I have used the four ...

If you use the wrong one, you can always claim it was a typo. | Dominique James/iStock via Getty Images Plus Despite what its name suggests, a semicolon isn’t exactly just half a colon—it has its own ...

The period (full stop) is perhaps the only punctuation mark that learners and those versed in the English language use correctly. On the other hand, the most misused punctuation marks by both learner ...

Sir, “Whatever happened to simple memorable titles such as Das Kapital?” asks Michael J Higgins (Letters, August 17), lamenting the inclusion of colons and subtitles in today’s business books.

Colons : and semi colons ; are punctuation marks that connect phrases in a sentence. This technique should be familiar to you as you will have studied it at 3rd level. Use this guide to revise and ...

Examiners have been accused of 'spiteful pedantry' by teachers after pupils were marked down for the size and shape of commas and semicolons in their SATs. During their exams primary students were ...