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  • Introduction
  • Why Learn to Punctuate?
  • The Full Stop, the Question Mark and the Exclamation Mark
  • The Comma
  • The Colon and the Semicolon
  • The Apostrophe
  • The Hyphen and the Dash
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  • Guide to Punctuation
  • Guide to Punctuation
  • Introduction
  • Why Learn to Punctuate?
  • The Full Stop, the Question Mark and the Exclamation Mark
  • 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

Guide to Punctuation

Larry Trask
University of Sussex



Table of Contents

  • 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 Listing Comma
    • The Joining Comma
    • The Gapping Comma
    • Bracketing Commas
    • Summary of Commas
  • The Colon and the Semicolon
    • The Colon
    • The Semicolon
    • The Colon and the Semicolon Compared
  • The Apostrophe
    • Contractions
    • Unusual plurals
    • Possessives
  • The Hyphen and the Dash
    • The Hyphen
    • The Dash
  • Capital Letters and Abbreviations
    • Capital Letters
    • Abbreviations
  • Quotations
    • Quotation Marks and Direct Quotations
    • Scare Quotes
    • Quotation Marks in Titles
    • Talking About Words
  • Miscellaneous
    • Italics
    • Boldface
    • Small Capitals
    • Parentheses
    • Square Brackets
    • The Ellipsis
    • The Slash
    • Numerals, Fractions and Dates
    • Diacritics
    • The Other Marks on Your Keyboard
    • Priority Among Punctuation Marks
  • Punctuating Essays and Letters
    • Titles and Section Headings
    • Footnotes
    • References to Published Work
    • Bibliography
    • Paragraphing
    • Punctuating Letters
  • Bibliography


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