Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Standard English Conventions is one of two major question categories on the SAT Writing and Language section. When sitting for the ...

“There’s not much to be said about the period except that most writers don’t reach it soon enough,” wrote William Zinsser in “On Writing Well.” It’s true that most sentences should be shorter. But ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last week, we discussed the various ways of punctuating the following sentence: His question “How do I get enough to eat ...

Commas, semicolons and question marks are so commonplace it seems as if they were always there – but that’s not the case. Keith Houston explains their history. As readers and writers, we’re intimately ...