When combining two complete sentences with a conjunction ("and," "but," "or," "for," or "yet"), precede the conjunction with a comma. Example: Still, the sun is slowly getting brighter and hotter, and it will eventually enter the red giant phase.

The judge said that a substantial sentence was required “to send a message to abusers and victims alike that exploitation and violence against women is met with real accountability.”

Former President Trump on Saturday vowed to commute the prison sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug-selling site Silk Road. The GOP frontrunner made the pledge while addressing the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C ...

Rambhai Patel, an Indian-origin man, received a 20-month jail sentence for orchestrating a visa fraud scheme involving staged armed robberies. Patel and his co-conspirator, Balwinder Singh, fabricated robberies at stores and restaurants to enable employees ...

Rebecca Whyte said: "It's a life sentence for us regardless and personally I think it should be for him." One victim of a man convicted of human trafficking has said his sentence is not long enough despite it being increased by two years. Oliver James ...

Some short stories build to a single sentence. This is so common, actually, that it sometimes seems most of the stories I read are of this type. Readers are herded toward the shiny black nailhead of a particular terminal period. At this point in the story ...

I’ve gotten a lot of emails recently about where to put periods and commas relative to quotation marks. The notes were prompted by a recent column in which I mentioned that, in American English, a period or comma always comes before a closing quote mark ...

To listen to the media tell it, "so" is busting out all over — or at least at the beginning of a sentence. New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas calls "so" the new "um" and "like"; others call it a plague and a fad. It's like a lot of other ...

How does your brain so quickly make sense of jumbled words that at first glance look like nonsense? Researchers aren’t entirely sure, but they have some suspicions. Yuo cna porbalby raed tihs esaliy desptie teh msispeillgns. They think part of the reason ...

I’ve gotten a lot of emails recently about where to put periods and commas relative to quotation marks. The notes were prompted by a recent column in which I mentioned that, in American English, a period or comma always comes before a closing quote mark ...