Actor George Takei, who played the helmsman of the USS Enterprise on "Star Trek," recently posted the above image that depicts a strange example of a perfectly logical English sentence. It ...

Sure, my correspondents conceded, it sometimes makes sense to put a period before a closing quote mark, for example in a sentence like: Joe said, “Take it easy, fella.” ...

Long and short sentences are often combined in a paragraph to build tension. For example, in Season of Secrets by Sally Nichols, the narrator spots a man running: He looks back.