Have you ever wondered what sic means? Or how to use brackets? Or what ellipses are and how to use them? This month, I'm focusing on a few of these odds and ends that no one ever seems to talk about.

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for.

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Tog up a sentence with punctuation marks such as brackets. Using the brackets, however, is slightly more difficult than the commas, because the former is employed for short ...

The proliferation of the grammatical device is closely correlated with the rise of large language models. But don’t forget, they learn from us ...

Narrator: Oh no Brain! They're not the same thing at all. In fact they're really quite different. A hyphen is used to join two words together that describe a noun. They help us avoid confusion when ...

We often focus on choosing the right words when we write—but how often do we think about punctuation? These small symbols—dots, commas, dashes, and more—do more than decorate our sentences. They guide ...

I don’t talk much here about the en dash — the little punctuation mark that looks like it can’t decide if it’s a hyphen or a full-fledged dash. There are a couple of reasons I avoid the subject. For ...

Narrator: Oh no Brain! They're not the same thing at all. In fact they're really quite different. A hyphen is used to join two words together that describe a noun. They help us avoid confusion when ...