When you have a sentence that ends with quotation marks or parentheses do you put the end punctuation inside or outside the quotes. He said "Steve, the Cheeto, WTF?". vs. He said "Steve, the Cheeto, ...

Recently in this space we talked about how, when two punctuation marks bump up against each other, one can sometimes preclude the other. For example, a phrase that would normally be followed by a ...

When we're writing, we can add extra words to a sentence to give more information or explanation. We call the extra words that have been added a parenthesis. Parenthesis is a word or clause inserted ...

National Punctuation Day, cooked up by Northern California punctuation enthusiast Jeff Rubin, aims to help kids get a better grasp of punctuation. But the Sept. 24 holiday is a good excuse for adults ...

Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using punctuation ...

If you're putting a whole sentence in parentheses, the custom follows logic -- put the period inside the parentheses, not outside it. Thus, for an example from a court case (in a state, California, ...

Recently in this space we talked about how, when two punctuation marks bump up against each other, one can sometimes preclude the other. For example, a phrase that would normally be followed by a ...