• Guide to Punctuation
• Introduction
• Why Learn to Punctuate?
• The Full Stop, the Question Mark and the Exclamation Mark
• • The Full Stop
  • The Question Mark
  • The Exclamation Mark
  • A Final Point
  • Fragments
• The Comma
• The Colon and the Semicolon
• The Apostrophe
• The Hyphen and the Dash
• Capital Letters and Abbreviations
• Quotations
• Miscellaneous
• Punctuating Essays and Letters
• Bibliography

A Final Point

Note that a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark is never preceded by a white space. Things like the following are wrong:

*How well has Darwin's theory stood up ?

A sentence-final punctuation mark is always written next to the last word of the sentence.

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