Last week’s column that discussed the use of comas, semi and full colons, and mentioned dependent and independent clauses in passing, elicited an email response from a reader who sought to know what ...

A severability clause lets certain contract parts remain valid, even if others are void. Learn about its definition, key ...

There reportedly is no longer an "independent study" clause in Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray's contract. Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported the NFC West team removed the clause from the ...

Even before the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last May in Epic Systems Corp., which upheld mandatory arbitration agreements, courts have been busy enforcing or striking down arbitration provisions.

A dependent clause cannot stand alone, though they often contain both a subject and a verb. Where independent clauses express complete thoughts, dependent clauses do not, and left on their own, ...

Semicolons are often used to join parts of a sentence together to establish variety and link related ideas. Unlike a colon, which separates an independent clause from descriptive information, a ...