Most people know a good sentence when they read one, but New York Times columnist Stanley Fish says most of us don't really know how to write them ourselves. His new book, How To Write A Sentence ...

We're eating with Albert. In a long sentence, you can use commas to separate out extra information and make the sentence easier to read. These commas do the same job as brackets but look a lot ...

Commas don't just signify pauses in a sentence — precise rules govern when to use this punctuation mark. Commas are needed before coordinating conjunctions, after dependent clauses (when they ...

In longer sentences, you can use commas to separate out extra information (known as 'parenthesis') to make the sentence easier to read. For example: Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland ...