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 ...

Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar that a “Seinfeld ...

A semi-colon can be used instead of a full stop between two related sentences. This links them together in a way a full stop doesn't. It looks like this ; When used correctly the semicolon can make ...