Writers can misuse or overuse hyphens, em dashes, colons and, to some editors' disgust, semicolons. Using a period is a ...

Are you a dashaholic? It’s a thing, apparently. I’m more of a colon abuser myself: as if everything I write is so important ...

The utility’s visual inspections of splices in its transmission lines sometimes failed to find dangerous conditions, officials found. The company says its work has reduced the risk that its ...

But Sachs’s exclamations don’t ring with authorial self-satisfaction. His marks (and comma splices) backdate the prose and give it the desired texture of German in translation—another joke ...

For example, consistent use of the Oxford comma. Writers should use the Oxford comma in all or none of their lists that contain at least three items: “Bill, Bob[,] and Brad.” For example ...

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