Why Indian students hit a wall on the SAT — diving into the real gaps

Why do academically strong Indian students often struggle in their first SAT or ACT diagnostic test?In this expert-led ...
VentureBeat

Busted by the em dash — AI's favorite punctuation mark, and how it's blowing your cover

Let’s talk about the em dash. Not the little innocent hyphen, not its slightly more confident cousin, the en dash. No, I’m talking about the 'EM dash,' that long, dramatic line that AI looooooves to ...
SheKnows

Gen Z Is Coming for Your Punctuation

Is nothing sacred anymore? Now we can’t even text — text, the thing millennials practically invented on T9 keyboards — without being called out by Gen Z. The generation who banned skinny jeans and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Could the Semicolon Die Out? Recent Analysis Finds a Decline in Its Usage in British Literature and Confusion Among U.K. Students

The first reported use of the semicolon was in the essay "De Aetna," pictured in part here, by Pietro Bembo and published by Aldus Manutius in the 1490s. Aldus Manutius, Pietro Bembo The semicolon has ...
The Independent

Punctuation joke wins Beano competition

Aaminah and Reniava, students from Stratus Class in Year 5 at Riverley Primary School in Leyton (Beano/PA) (PA Wire) A joke about punctuation has been chosen as the funniest in a competition run by ...
Huffington Post UK

Using This Punctuation Mark May Reveal Your Age, Experts Say

Most of us are familiar with “Boomer ellipses,” or the ominous ”...” some texters use in place of a full stop or comma. Even double spacing can reveal your age; older typists prefer it, especially ...
Reader's Digest

12 Little-Known Punctuation Marks More People Should Be Using

Tired of ending your sentences with a boring period or exclamation point? Try one of these uncommon punctuation marks instead, and impress your grammar-loving friends. Uncommon punctuation marks ...
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Sentence Structure and Punctuation: Elementary School Language Arts

The film follows a young student named Jimmy as he learns about sentences in school. Through various examples, he discovers the difference between telling sentences, which end with a period, and ...