Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How Many Exclamation Points Are Too Many in an Email? A Psychologist Weighs In originally appeared on Parade. Writing an email ...

And if you add the wrong punctuation mark or leave it out, you may regret it. Suddenly, that little dot or dash you barely ...

Hello! I want you to know that I’m super excited about this week’s column!! It’s about exclamation points!!!! I recently received a work-related email riddled with them, as if it was written by an ...

We have already covered the difficult question of how to use emojis in the workplace. Now I will be leading you through an advanced course on whether or not you should use exclamation points. But ...

I had an English professor in college who once explained why we should never use exclamation points. “Let the words in the sentence convey the intensity,” he said. “Not the exclamation point.” The ...

In an essay published in 1895 called “How to Tell a Story,” Mark Twain chastised writers who use “whooping exclamation-points” that reveal them laughing at their own humor, “all of which is very ...

Exclamation points used to be a rare signal of extreme intensity. Now they're everywhere, from news headlines to business emails and text messages. Thanks to our smartphone-obsessed culture, the ...

Y'all, get ready to have your world turned upside down by some titillating grammar news: Someone has introduced a new punctuation mark. While it may not seem like a big deal to you, for an English ...

The only literary work about punctuation I'm aware of is an odd early story by Anton Chekhov called "The Exclamation Mark." After getting into an argument with a colleague about punctuation, a school ...