Exclamation points used to be a rare signal of extreme intensity. Now they're everywhere, from news headlines to business emails and text messages. Thanks to our smartphone-obsessed culture, the ...

Word, word, word, word, word, punctuation mark. This is how we read. Sometimes there are more words, or fewer. Occasionally additional marks—commas, em-dashes—enter the mix. But that’s pretty much how ...

Benjamin Dreyer shares his decades of language experience in his new book, "Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style." Grammar Guru Banishes The Exclamation Mark In New Grammar ...

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I was scanning the first draft of an all-staff office memo I had written the other day, trying to strike the just-right balance between exuberance and self-dignity. I reserved the most scrutiny for my ...

Punctuation marks aren't just resigned to the symbols on your keyboard. There are plenty more - like the exclamation comma - that never made it into type but nonetheless exist. The exclamation comma ...

Boo! Chiz!! Frantic news!!! The Department for Education has issued a ukase (or “guidance”, as they prefer to call it) on the use of exclamation marks by seven-year-olds. Nigel Molesworth and JCT ...

Plenty of people are guilty of using exclamation points a little too freely from time to time, but apparently James Franklin is one of those who uses them in excess. The Penn State football coach ...