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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No matter how hard I try, I cannot stop comma splicing. I use grammarly at work to spot-check my writing. Everything I write seems to have at least one comma splice. Rather than fix my shit, I figure ...

If you don't know what a comma splice is, aren't quite sure, or are quite sure, you'll find some interesting coverage of the topic here. True puncutation geeks will also enjoy the comments following ...