Primary school pupils will only get credit for using exclamation marks in sentences beginning with 'what' or 'how', under strict new Government rules.

Primary school pupils will only get credit for using exclamation marks in sentences beginning with 'what' or 'how', Government insists Primary school pupils won't get credit for exclamation marks ...

When we write things down it's important to keep things nice and clear, so it's easy to read. Sentences help us give an order, ask a question, state a fact or express an emotion or idea. Words are the ...

The government's grammar police are keen to put an end to superfluous exclamation marks – one could say that they're trying to put a full stop to them. Are they mad?! At a briefing run by the ...

An exclamation point ( ! ) is used to end a sentence expressing strong emotion or commands (Stop!), and may be used to close questions that are meant to convey extreme emotion (What were you thinking!