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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. As part of my job, I read the written work of lots of different people of different ages. I notice that many of them use comma splices, ...

Braveheart did it, Adele does it. While I did it then, splicing two sentences into one, snubbing the semicolon to mash two time-zones, my heresy enacted by that intermediary comma. Grammarians know ...

Simply sign up to the Work & Careers myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A leaflet from the Liberal Democrats drops through my letter box. “Elections in Hornsey and Wood Green are between ...

One of my students once told me that when she writes something she always puts a comma wherever she thinks someone should take a breath. She defended this by saying this is what they do in a musical ...