Semicolon-versus-colon is one of the most fearsome face-offs in the grammar game. Here’s how to come out on top.

What are colons and semicolons? How and why would you use them? Bitesize explains with examples from ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’.

Colons and semicolons are punctuation marks. They help express relationships between parts of a sentence. A colon is used before describing or further explaining something previously mentioned in ...

So a recent memo I wrote was reviewed and in the flurry of red ink, this sentence was corrected by my manager (some words have been changed):quote:Jelly donut S/N 012 was cleared of excessive ...

Both the dash and the semicolon are put to brilliant use in a page-and-a-half-long sentence from “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” which Watson quotes in full.In it, Martin Luther King, Jr ...