Like most parents, I text with my teens regularly, and I feel fairly competent: I’m a good communicator, know the lingo, and understand the ins and outs of texting with teens. Or so I thought. Rules ...

A Redditor asked "What is something that most people don’t use correctly?" and folks were really focusing on what grammar mistakes they can't stand.

Welcome back to another UK School Grammar quiz, where the rules you thought you’d safely left behind are waiting for you all ...

Attorneys deal with laws for a living. Bureaucrats work with regulations. Restaurateurs contend with heat, spice and the irregularity of natural ingredients. I work with words and, occasionally, ...

This is the first column in Comma Connects, an occasional series detailing the building of Comma, the nonprofit set to assume ownership of The Spokesman-Review in 2026, through the personal stories of ...

"Rend your cheeks and rub ashes into your hair," said The Spectator, for the semicolon, that "most elegant, elusive of punctuation marks", is all but dead. Use of the semicolon (in lists, or to join ...

Traditional teaching practices often make grammar challenging and inaccessible for students, but stepping outside of the norm can make things more interesting. All students are expected to write in ...

DEAR RICHARD: The Oxford comma, also known as the serial comma, is the comma used before the conjunction in a list of three or more items. For example: “I like to eat apples, bananas, and oranges.” I ...

Of the many issues facing journalism today, probably none is as globally important or as well known as the persecution of the Oxford comma and its valiant defenders. This humble piece of punctuation — ...

Currently, the rule COM812 will flag any calls/lists where the final item has no comma. For the most part, this is useful and I like the consistency it provides. However, there are two issues with ...

When you're writing or typing and begin to list items in consecutive order, do you add a comma prior to the conjunction before the final item? Or not? The inclusion of that final comma is a great ...