In her Oct. 17, 2007, letter to the editor about my online Commentary “No Wiz at Grammar” (Sept. 24, 2007), Lorraine S. Caplan states that the British “consider the comma to be an appropriate ...

I am compelled to respond to Alan Warhaftig’s online Commentary “No Wiz at Grammar” (Sept. 24, 2007). While many of his criticisms of the grammar and punctuation J.K. Rowling uses in her most recent ...

The two notes purportedly sent by Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper contain a convergence of specific grammatical habits — consistent comma splices, non-standard compound words, and a critical pronoun slip ...

As part of my job, I read the written work of lots of different people of different ages. I notice that many of them use comma splices, and it makes their writing difficult to read. The more I read ...

Braveheart did it, Adele does it. While I did it then, splicing two sentences into one, snubbing the semicolon to mash two time-zones, my heresy enacted by that intermediary comma. Grammarians know ...

Simply sign up to the Work & Careers myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A leaflet from the Liberal Democrats drops through my letter box. “Elections in Hornsey and Wood Green are between ...

A worksheet on comma splices aimed at a 20 minute intervention session. Part of a wider series of intervention lessons. A bundle is a package of resources grouped together to teach a particular topic, ...

This is an introduction to comma splices, showing how to correct them by using a full stop. Good for lower KS2 as an introduction to the subject. There are two versions of a short presentation, plus a ...