Punctuation for NowPalgrave Macmillan UK, 09/07/1990 - 213 páginas It's or Its? Full stop inside or outside the inverted commas? What's the difference between a semi-colon and a colon? Cooperate or co-operate? Punctuation For Now describes in a witty but authoritative way how our present system of punctuation has grown out of the history of our language. It also indicates the conventions that govern the best punctuation in the English of today. The rules are set out clearly, and reinforced by abundant examples from the work of such authors as Kingsley Amis and Evelyn Waugh. Anyone with an examination to pass, or with a child who is learning to use English, or who writes it for a living, will find Punctuation For Now an invaluable guide and friend. |
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All the Stops and Pretty Whiles | 40 |
Dashes Dots and Flying Commas | 88 |
WriterPrinterReader | 145 |
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abbreviation adjective apostrophe ation Boswell brackets called capital letter capitalised Caxton century Chapter clauses colon comma Compare compounds convention Corinthians 13 dash device Dictionary dots effect eighteenth English Grammar English Language Eric Partridge Evelyn Waugh example exclamation mark Fowler French full stop genitive Geoffrey Leech give Greek Hart's Rules Henry James hyphen indicate inverted commas italics John Keats Kingsley Amis L. P. Hartley Latin literary London look Lord manuscripts matter meaning minimalist modern names Note omission Oxford paragraph parentheses particularly passage pauses plural Point There 1953 possessive apostrophe practice preferences printers proper nouns published punctu question mark quotation marks quotes reader reading require Robert Burchfield rules Samuel Johnson semi-colon sense sentence separate Shakespeare Simon Raven single sometimes spoken style syntactic system of punctuation thing tion titles underlined Usage virgule vowel woman words writing written
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