The 45th President of the United States is a big fan of a particular type of punctuation – but what does this addiction really mean? Philip Cowell finds out. There is really only one rule when it ...

Shocking! Women use exclamation marks three times more often than men, according to a new study. Punctuation is a “fraught and contentious business”, said Melanie McDonagh in London’s The Standard.

It was in my first office job that my habit of writing exclamation mark–ridden work emails first came to my attention. My supervisor noticed the pattern and gently asked me to tone it down. At first I ...

We all know how important punctuation marks are in our scripts, because punctuation fills our writing with expression. We pause, stop, emphasise, or question using a comma, a period, an exclamation ...

As we gathered punctuation favorites from a range of our favorite writers, novelists, and word-knowledgable people, we ran into a cold, hard fact. Some punctuation marks were hated, perhaps none more ...

FEW writers know when to employ an exclamation point. It is a tricky bit of punctuation, frankly. I rue its appearance in e-mails, as it raises the bar of enthusiasm to a level that is quite difficult ...

Pupils have been told to stop using so many exclamation marks under new government guidelines. Teachers have described the guidance, which applies to grammar tests for seven-year-olds, as unhelpful ...