You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and its Allies

Contents......Page 2
Contents (1)......Page 4
Contents (2)......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Book I. Punctuation......Page 12
Chapter I. Introductory......Page 14
Chapter 2. Period or Full Stop......Page 20
Chapter 3. The Comma......Page 25
§ 1: The Comma between Noun (or Pronoun)and Noun (or Pronoun)......Page 27
§ 2: T he Comma between Adjectives......Page 28
§ 3: The Comma between Verbs......Page 30
§ 4: The Comma between Adverbs......Page 31
§ 6: The Comma between Conjunctions......Page 32
§ 8: Commas between Single Words and Word-Groups......Page 34
§ 9: Commas between Single Words and Phrases......Page 35
§ 11 : Commas in Addresses, Letter-Headings,Letter-Endings......Page 36
§ 12: Comma and Full Stop in Figures and Symbols......Page 38
§ 14: Commas between Clauses - Principal and Principal......Page 40
§ 15: Commas between Principal and Subordinateor between Subordinate and Principal......Page 42
§ 16: Commas between Subordinate and Subordinate......Page 44
§ 17: Commas in Fully Developed Complex Sentences......Page 45
§ 20: Recapitulatory......Page 47
§ 21 : Distinction with a Difference......Page 50
§ 22: Comma-less Apposition......Page 52
Period and Comma in Abbreviation and Contraction......Page 53
§ 1: Introductory......Page 55
§ 2: Semicolons between important Syntactical Elements, especially between Principal Clauses......Page 56
§ 3: Semicolons between Principal and SubordinateClauses......Page 61
§ 4: Semicolons between Sentence-Elements other than Clauses......Page 62
§ 1: Introductory (1)......Page 63
§ 2: Annunciatory......Page 64
§ 4: Appositive......Page 66
§ 6: Parallel......Page 67
§ 7: Antithetic and Oppositional......Page 68
§ 9: Interpolative......Page 69
§ 11 : Cumulative or Progressive......Page 70
§ 13: Promotional......Page 71
§ 14: Non-Punctuational......Page 72
1: Punctuational......Page 74
§ 3: Parenthesis of Unimportant Afterthought......Page 75
§ 5: Degrees and Varieties of Parentheses......Page 76
II: Non-Punctuational......Page 78
§ 1: Parenthetical......Page 79
§ 3: Abrupt Beginning......Page 80
§ 5: Abrupt Cessation......Page 81
§ 8: The Interjective Dash......Page 82
§ 10: ‘The End at Last!’......Page 83
§ 12: Question and Answer; Dialogue......Page 84
§ 15: The Epigrammatic Dash......Page 85
II: NON-PUNCTUATIONAL......Page 86
III : THE WAYS OF PRESENTING INTERRUPTION AND INTERPOLATION......Page 87
Chapter 9. QUESTION MARK AND EXCLAMATION MARK......Page 90
§ 1: Asterisks......Page 93
§ 2: Dashes......Page 94
§ 1: Dots......Page 95
§ 2: Leaders......Page 96
§ 4: Compound Points......Page 97
§ 5: Other Compound Points......Page 99
§ 6: Multiple Points......Page 100
§ 1: Punctuation......Page 101
§ 2: Relative Values of the Points......Page 102
Chapter 12. NOT TOO LITTLE, NOT TOO MUCH: CLOSE PUNCTUATION AND OPEN PUNCTUATION; OVER-PUNCTUATION AND UNDER-PUNCTUATION......Page 105
BOOK II. ALLIES AND ACCESSORIES......Page 116
Chapter 13. CAPITAL LETTERS......Page 118
I: PUNCTUATIONAL (1)......Page 119
III. TYPOGRAPHICAL......Page 120
IV : LITERARY......Page 121
V I I : OFFICIAL (other than titles of honour)......Page 122
VIII : RELIGIOUS......Page 123
X: HISTORICAL......Page 124
XII : SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL......Page 126
EMPHASIS, DIFFERENTIATION AND DISTINCTION; QUOTATION......Page 129
§ 3: Antithesis......Page 130
§ 5: Technicalities, Slang, Dialect......Page 131
§ 8: Quotation......Page 132
§ 1: Strictly Quoted......Page 133
§ 3: Antithesis (1)......Page 134
§ 5: Technicalities, Slangy, Dialectal, Illiterate Expressions......Page 135
§ 8: Typographical......Page 136
§ 2: Initial Capitals......Page 138
§ 4: Quotation Marks......Page 140
§ 5: Hyphens......Page 141
§ 7: Multiple Emphasis......Page 142
I I . STYLISTIC OR SYNTACTICAL......Page 144
I: DIVISION......Page 145
§ 1: General......Page 147
§ 2: Particular......Page 148
THE VIRGULE (OR VIRGIL) OR THE OBLIQUE......Page 162
THE BRACE OR VINCULUM......Page 164
§ 2: Omission......Page 166
§ 3: Plurals of Letters, Figures, Symbols......Page 167
II. WORDS CHANGED MEDIALLY AND FINALLY......Page 168
VI: THE s-s TYPE......Page 169
VIII. THE GROUP GENITIVE......Page 170
X. MODERN GOOD SENSE......Page 171
Chapter 19. TITLES OF BOOKS, PERIODICALS, CHAPTERS, ARTICLES......Page 173
Chapter 20. INDENTION AND PARAGRAPHING......Page 176
Chapter 21. VARIOUS MODES OF QUOTATION IN PROSE AND VERSE; RELATIONSHIP OF QUOTATION TO PARAGRAPHING......Page 181
Book III. ORCHESTRATION......Page 188
Chapter 22. ALLIANCE OF PUNCTUATIION AND QUOTATION. - PUNCTUATION AN ART......Page 190
Chapter 23. FULL ORCHESTRA......Page 196
A CHAPTER ON AMERICAN PRACTICE by John W. Clark......Page 222