Semicolon use is down, and its slide is making headlines. In the U.S., these punctuation marks are appearing in published ...

As for those long lists, in many cases, these semicolons are a clear sign you’re cramming too much information into the sentence. Yes, sometimes that’s your only option, as in my example above.

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark, a study has found. In English-written 19th century literature it appeared once in every 205 words ...

As with semicolons, so with speech marks. A survey by The Economist revealed last week that fiction is increasingly doing away with them: in the 1970s, 94% of Booker shortlisted novels used ...

Inspired by the passionate response to the semicolon’s supposed decline, this quiz invites you to test – and perhaps rediscover – your grasp of English grammar, from the basics to the ...

English writer Virginia Woolf used the semicolon profusely in her novel Mrs. Dalloway —more than 1,000 semicolons dot its 194 pages to reflect the protagonist’s stream of consciousness.

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark, a study has found. In 19th century English literature it appeared once in every 205 words, but ...