A Pocket Guide to Correct Punctuation

In a way that is neither tedious nor difficult to understand, Brittain and Griffin provide the meanings of all English language punctuation marks, explain the reasons for their use, and offer a quick review of their uses.

The Meaning of Punctuation

1

(6)

Introduction

1

(5)

Beginning and End Punctuation

6

(6)

The Capital Letter

6

(1)

The Period

7

(3)

The Question Mark

10

(1)

The Exclamation Point

10

(2)

A Note on Sentence Fragments

12

(4)

The Five Principal Interior Marks

16

(46)

The Single Comma

16

(6)

The Pair of Commas

22

(22)

The Comma-Plus-Coordinating-Conjunction

44

(6)

The Semicolon

50

(7)

The Colon

57

(5)

Rarely Needed Interior Marks

62

(16)

The Single Dash

62

(5)

The Parentheses

67

(6)

The Pair of Dashes

73

(5)

Punctuation of Quoted Matter

78

(12)

The Quotation Marks

78

(6)

The Brackets

84

(2)

Ellipsis Points

86

(1)

The Bar

87

(3)

Some Non-Punctuational Symbols

90

(4)

The Abbreviation Point, the Hyphen, Etc.

90

(2)

The Apostrophe

92

(2)

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