Collins Improve Your Punctuation
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Graham King. Collins Improve Your Punctuation
Contents
Introduction
Punctuation – What’s the Point?
Understanding Punctuation
Collins Makes Punctuation Easy
Sentences and Paragraphs
The Unique Nature of the Sentence
How Long is a Sentence?
The Paragraph
Capitalisation
A Guide to Capitalisation
Scree-e-e-eechh! The Full Stop
Full Stops and Abbreviations
The Common, but Contrary, Comma
Too, many, commas …
The Comma Weight Reduction Plan
The Comma Splice
Correct Comma Placement
The Many Functions of the Comma
Using Commas with Adjectives
Commas with Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases
Other Problem Comma Placements
Using Commas to Parenthesise
The Serviceable Semicolon
The Dejected, Rejected Semicolon
The Functions of the Semicolon
Semicolon Self-test: Answers and Discussion
Trouble with your Colon?
The Functions of the Colon
Misuse of the Colon
The Seductive Embrace of Parentheses [Brackets]
Abusing the Bracket
Some Tips on using Parentheses
Square Brackets
A Dash to the Rescue
The Versatile Dash
The Dash in Sentence Construction
Hassles with Hyphens
The Evolutionary Hyphen
Compound Engagements, Marriages and Divorces
Compounds with Prefixes
Compounds with Suffixes
Other Compounds
A Hotchpotch of Hyphens
Other Functions of the Hyphen
An Inadequacy of Hyphens: Suggested Punctuation
Any Questions? The Question Mark
Direct and Indirect Questions
The ‘Semi’-question
Other Questions about the Question Mark
The Exclamation Mark!
Avoiding Catastrophes with Apostrophes
Possessive Apostrophes
Pronouns and Possessive Apostrophes
Apostrophic Enigmas
Contraction Apostrophes
Out, damned squiggle! out, I say!
Quotation Marks
Quoting Direct Speech
How to Close Quotations
British and American Punctuation
Direct Speech: Style and Ethics
Other Functions of Quotation Marks
Punctuation Pot-pourri: ellipsis, asterisks, bullets, strokes and typographical effects
The Three-dot Ellipsis
The Asterisk
Bullets
The Stroke
Italics, Bold and Underlining
The Numbers Game: Punctuating Numbers and Figures
When to spell out numbers
Expressing Time
Dates
Ages
Ordinal Numbers
Fractions
Dimensions and Measurements
Money
Put Your Punctuation to the Test!
Answers and Scoresheet
Index
If you enjoyed Improve Your Punctuation, check out these other great Graham King titles
About the Author
Writing Guides by Graham King
Copyright
About the Publisher
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