Collins Improve Your Punctuation

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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