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 ...

In this KS2 punctuation teaching resource, pupils practise punctuating independent clauses while avoiding comma splicing. Content includes: As with all our PowerPoint teaching resources, ‘Avoiding ...

There’s a nasty little punctuation habit that instantly gives your age away. It’s called the comma splice, and I’ve noticed it’s mostly used by writers under age 35. I don’t blame them for not being ...

No matter how hard I try, I cannot stop comma splicing. I use grammarly at work to spot-check my writing. Everything I write seems to have at least one comma splice. Rather than fix my shit, I figure ...