The ellipsis indicates that something has been omitted. It could be something you’re trying to gloss over, like a mistake or an affair, or it could be something unutterably boring, like . . . I can’t ...

This is an excerpt from Post copy editor Bill Walsh’s monthly Grammar Geekery chat, which takes place the first Tuesday of each month. Chatters wanted to explore the many punctuation marks that ...

Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using punctuation ...

Now, according to a report from a language site, the semicolon is disappearing because writers aren’t confident of using them properly; they just don’t rate them or they’re scared someone will say, ...

Punctuation basics are easy. A period ends a sentence. A comma represents a pause. A quotation mark indicates a quotation. An apostrophe shows possession. Most people get that. But the finer points — ...