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Capital letters are among the more important forms of punctuation as they help guide the eyes and mind through your text.  Unconvinced?  Try reading this:

“gchq is one of the agencies that contributes to the make-up of the joint terrorism analysis centre.  jtac provides advice to the uk government and major industries on terrorist threats.”

The short paragraph above, bereft of all capital letters, is still readable, although it takes a little effort,

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I’ve talked about sentence lengths before but how long should a paragraph be?  The answer, as usual, is that there is no hard and fast rule – some paragraphs consist of a single line, or even word, whereas in other cases they can go on for a page or more!

The Times newspaper, that arbiter of good grammar, advises its journalists, “Rarely should a paragraph be of only one sentence, least of all a short one,

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Even the most hopeless writers among us – those who ignore almost every punctuation device – will nonetheless speak in sentences. Sentences are used to make statements, to ask questions, to demand action and express feelings – but what exactly are the rules?

It’s reasonable to say a sentence should express a single idea and be complete.  (After all, there’s little more annoying than an unfinished

However, with the help of some clever punctuation,

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