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 ...

Because sometimes periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses ...

It's a safer punctuation mark because it doesn't carry multiple meanings. Example: Sounds good. To older texters: This is the natural way to end a sentence. To younger texters: A period reinforces ...

The period, colon, and comma, for example, were employed to make sense of the endless run-on sentences of the Greeks. The ...

Continue this pattern, using closing quotation marks only at the very end of the quoted material. Placement with other punctuation: A period or comma always go inside closing quotation marks. ("We ...