They are inaudible and unpronounceable. They do not exist in spoken English—they are at best a pause rather than a presence: no one (with apologies to those listening to this article in our audio ...

The inverted commas, dashes, parentheses and capitalisation happen to be the last few items on our list of punctuation marks. In the above examples it is important to note the positioning of the ...

Reporting other people’s speeches or writings is a technical exercise in which punctuation marks play strategic roles. Whether it is in direct speech or the indirect, punctuation marks such as the ...