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Making a point: the Persnickety story of English punctuation
Making a point: the Persnickety story of English punctuation
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From the Book - First U.S. Edition.
In the beginning...
...was diversity
To point, or not to point?
No question: we need it
The first printer
A messy situation
Breath, blood, and spirits
Grammar rules
The printer's dilemma
Passing the buck
The way forward: meanings and effects
Interfering with Jane Austen
Is there a punctuation system?
Starting at the top
Paragraph preferences
Periods, period.
Devilish dashes
Ellipsis dots or...
The value of nothing
Exclamation marks!!
Next, question marks?
Semicolons; or not
Colons: the chapter
Commas, the big picture
Commas, the small picture
Commas, the serial killer
Hy-phens
Apostrophes: the past
Apostrophes: the present (and future)
Marks of inclusion (or exclusion): round brackets
Marks of inclusion: 'quotation marks'
Graphics and italics
Punctuating the internet
Pragmatic tolerance.
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English language
English language -- Punctuation
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax
Language Studies
Punctuation
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Crystal, David
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9781250060419
9781466865648
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