In a quotation it’s important to make sure you use the exact words from the original text. In most critical essays, it’s better to use shorter quotations in a precise way rather than write out very ...

The Saturday edition of NYT Connections arrives with puzzle #972, serving up a grid that rewards grammatical precision and mathematical literacy. Today's challenge particularly favors editors and ...

A colon is used to give emphasis, present dialogue, introduce lists or text, and clarify composition titles. Emphasis—Capitalize the first word after the colon only if it is a proper noun or the start ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Connections game on a smartphone - Ian Moore / James Martin / Viva Tung / Mashable Composite The NYT Connections puzzle today is ...

The most common way to use a semicolon is to help join closely connected ideas in a sentence. These sections must be independent and complete sentences, but closely linked in some way. A full stop ...