"Stops", Or How to Punctuate / A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students
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About This Book
George Paul Macdonell, who wrote under the pseudonym Paul Allardyce was the author of "Stops"; or, How to Punctuate (1884). "The Use of Punctuation. -Punctuation is a device for marking out the arrangement of a writer's ideas. Reading is thereby made easier than it otherwise would be. A writer's ideas are expressed by a number of words arranged in groups, the words in one group being more closely connected with one another than they are with those in the next group. "
Chapters (111)(click to expand)
- “STOPS”
- OR, HOW TO PUNCTUATE
- A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS AND STUDENTS
- LONDON
- T. FISHER UNWIN LTD.
- ADELPHI TERRACE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE FULL STOP
- THE COMMA
- THE SEMICOLON
- THE COLON
- THE POINT OF INTERROGATION
- THE MARK OF EXCLAMATION
- THE DASH
- BRACKETS (or THE PARENTHESIS.[2])
- INVERTED COMMAS
- ITALICS
- THE HYPHEN
- THE APOSTROPHE
- MARKS OF ELLIPSIS
- REFERENCES TO NOTES
- HOW TO CORRECT A PRINTER'S PROOF
- EXPLANATION
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