The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you requi…

- Lynne Truss

It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer w…

- Lynne Truss

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

- Lynne Truss

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

- Lynne Truss

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

- Lynne Truss

A Panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots into the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the …

- Lynne Truss

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

- Lynne Truss

The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are …

- Lynne Truss

In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, …

- Lynne Truss