Penguin Guide to Punctuation

by Trask, R. L.

• ISBN13: 9780140513660
• ISBN10: 0140513663
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin Uk

Summary

The Penguin Guide to Punctuation is indispensable for anyone who needs to get to grips with using punctuation in their written work. Whether you are puzzled by colons and semicolons, unsure of where commas should go or baffled by apostrophes, this jargon-free, succinct guide is for you.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
To the Reader	ix
Why Learn to Punctuate?	1	(4)
The Full Stop, the Question Mark and the Exclamation Mark	5	(8)
The Full Stop	5	(3)
The Question Mark	8	(1)
The Exclamation Mark	9	(2)
A Final Point	11	(1)
Fragments	12	(1)
The Comma	13	(25)
The Listing Comma	13	(4)
The Joining Comma	17	(2)
The Gapping Comma	19	(2)
Bracketing Commas	21	(12)
Summary of Commas	33	(5)
The Colon and the Semicolon	38	(10)
The Colon	38	(3)
The Semicolon	41	(4)
The Colon and the Semicolon Compared	45	(3)
The Apostrophe	48	(11)
Contractions	49	(5)
Unusual Plurals	54	(2)
Possessives	56	(3)
The Hyphen and the Dash	59	(14)
The Hyphen	59	(9)
The Dash	68	(5)
Capital Letters and Abbreviations	73	(21)
Capital Letters	73	(12)
Abbreviations	85	(9)
Quotation Marks	94	(19)
Quotation Marks and Direct Quotations	94	(13)
Scare Quotes	107	(2)
Quotation Marks in Titles	109	(1)
Talking About Words	110	(3)
Miscellaneous	113	(25)
Italics	113	(4)
Boldface	117	(1)
Small Capitals	118	(1)
Parentheses	119	(3)
Square Brackets	122	(1)
The Ellipsis	123	(1)
The Slash	124	(1)
Numerals, Fractions and Dates	125	(4)
Diacritics	129	(3)
The Other Marks on Your Keyboard	132	(3)
Priority Among Punctuation Marks	135	(3)
Punctuating Essays and Letters	138	(19)
Titles and Section Headings	138	(3)
Footnotes	141	(4)
References to Published Work	145	(4)
Bibliography	149	(5)
Paragraphing	154	(1)
Punctuating Letters	155	(2)
Bibliography	157	(1)
Other Useful Works on Punctuation	158	(1)
Index	159