In school, I was taught about conjunctions (e.g. or and and) and the role they play in sentence structure – they are linking words. They do what they say on the tin: con-(i.e. with) and -junction (i.e ...

A Variety headline posted on social media drew some laughs recently. “Trammell Tillman on ‘Severance’ Delays, Coming Out as Gay and Tom Cruise.” “He’s gay AND Tom Cruise?” one observer mused. “He ...

“There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken,” wrote author Lynne Truss in her punctuation ...

It’s just a comma, my friend complained to me last week while I was editing her essay. I had told her, politely but firmly, that one of her sentences was incorrect without a comma; she did not take it ...