SOME British readers might wonder why a London-based publication uses double inverted commas like "these". And some American readers may wonder why commas and full stops (er, periods) sometimes appear ...
The inverted commas, dashes, parentheses and capitalisation happen to be the last few items on our list of punctuation marks. In the above examples it is important to note the positioning of the ...
One of the difficulties about punctuation is that a lot of it is down to personal preference or “style”. And that isn’t just a recent thing, to be blamed on textspeak and the belief that the world is ...
HAPPY National Grammar Day, everyone. Today's offering is only marginally on grammar. We've asked "What is grammar anyway?" here at Johnson. The layperson would almost certainly answer "those ...
Reporting other people’s speeches or writings is a technical exercise in which punctuation marks play strategic roles. Whether it is in direct speech or the indirect, punctuation marks such as the ...
A day after kicking up a huge row over his controversial Facebook remarks on Kashmir, ruling LDF MLA KT Jaleel on Saturday shared another FB post apparently blaming the critics for failing to ...
RADZI CHINYANGANYA: This right here is the BBC newsroom. BBC News are responsible for gathering and broadcasting news and current affairs and here journalists will collect information and carry out ...
Opposition ridicules government’s red tape repeal day bills as a ‘semi-annual attack on punctuation’ The prime minister Tony Abbott says one of his government’s greatest achievements has been cutting ...