Periods may be coming to a full stop. While older texters may consider the period an innocent symbol that a sentence has ended, digital natives consider it a triggering form of aggression. The ...

Merriam-Webster had touched on a stubborn taboo — the practice of ending sentences with prepositions such as to, with, about, upon, for or of — that was drilled into many of us in grade school ...

Emphatic sentence Judge gives former Enron CEO Skilling 24-plus years in prison. Juan A. Lozano THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling, ...

That 79-word behemoth, as we can see, needs nothing less than major surgery. First, as a newspaper journalist might do it, we will boil that paragraph down into the bite-size sentences that go ...

Where does the Emphatic Capitalization come from? Certainly, it wasn’t always ironic, just as many of the internet’s puckish fillips originated in solemn, graceful rhetorical techniques.

It was an address that would have fit snugly along the campaign trail, more fist-pounding than open-armed oratory with short, emphatic sentences and an anti-establishment, America First theme ...

Testing Bachmann. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any ...

The answer to all these questions is an emphatic “no.” The reason: Sometimes one punctuation mark can preclude the need for another. ... You need one to end a sentence.

IN last week's column we discussed the resumptive modifier. We saw that by using a key word in the main clause as the subject or theme of the relative phrases that come after it, we can eliminate ...

Addressing the graduating cadets at West Point in May 1942, General George C. Marshall, then the Army chief of staff, reduced the nation’s purpose in the global war it had recently joined to a single ...