SEVERAL months ago I w as surprised to see Arnold Zwicky, a linguist, use a comma splice. A few commenters took me to task for being over-picky. The question came up again in the comments several days ...

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 ...

You can get Samuel Beckett’s most famous comma splice (absent commas) on a T-shirt or coffee mug Because the conventions for their use are so variable, commas can provide a quick sense of a writer’s ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Braveheart did it, Adele does it. While I did it then, splicing two sentences into one, snubbing the semicolon to mash two time-zones, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. 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, ...

One of my students once told me that when she writes something she always puts a comma wherever she thinks someone should take a breath. She defended this by saying this is what they do in a musical ...

Sex. Now that I have your attention, I’d like to discuss the fact that this sentence you’re reading is not necessarily a run-on sentence because run-on sentences are not simply sentences that run on ...

Let’s talk, it’s been a rough year. Editing me out of this research paper? Not cool. How many gigs do you think I get? Kid, I’m the second assistant manager at a kiosk Starbucks. I dropped out of the ...