"Rend your cheeks and rub ashes into your hair," said The Spectator, for the semicolon, that "most elegant, elusive of ...

Don't want people to know you use ChatGPT to write your emails or reports? Pay attention to this small detail.

A hyphen ( - ) is used to link parts of a compound word. This includes most dual heritages (Mexican-American), and all words in a compound modifier except "very" and adverbs that end in "ly." (The ...

Hyphens are only used to combine certain words together. They are not strong enough to set off phrases or words from a sentence. Use hyphens in the following situations: Use in compound numbers and ...

Some people are only just learning about the em dash, or so it seems, as written content faces a new wave of ChatGPT-generated accusations – all thanks to the versatile punctuation mark.

The genAI explosion has had a lot of casualties. Among them: the humble em-dash – now inaccurately but damningly derided as ...

Take a look at these four A-boards each with a confusing sentence. Which punctuation would you use here? A comma or a hyphen? And where would you place it? Have a go at doing this yourself.

The more it appears, the higher the chance of the passage being generated by ChatGPT but that’s just a thought among some ...

Placement with other punctuation: A period or comma always go inside closing quotation marks. ("We hope to win the game," he said.) A dash, semicolon, question mark and exclamation point go inside ...

Using punctuation in adverts is really important. It helps to deliver the product's core message quickly and clearly. So this next challenge is about the use of the bracket the dash and the hyphen ...