The penguin guide to punctuation / R. L. Trask.

Trask, R. L.

The penguin guide to punctuation / R. L. Trask. - London : Penguin books, c1997. - x, 162 p. ; 20 cm.

Contents;

Chapter 1: Why learn to punctuate?

Chapter 2: The full stop, the question mark and the exclamation mark
2.1 The full stop
2.2 The question mark
2.3 The exclamation mark
etc.

Chapter 3: The comma
3.1 The listing comma
3.2 The joining comma
3.3 The gapping comma
etc.

Chapter 4: The colon and the semicolon
4.1 The colon
4.2 The semicolon
4.3 The colon and the semicolon compared

Chapter 5: The apostrophe
5.1 Contractions
5.2 Unusual plurals
5.3 Possessives

Chapter 6:The hyphen and the dash
6.1 The hyphen
6.2 The dash

Chapter 7: Capital letters and abbreviations
7.1 Capital letters
7.2 Abbreviations

Chapter 8: Quotation marks
8.1 Quotation marks and direct quotations
8.2 Scare quotes
8.3 Quotation marks in titles
etc.

Chapter 9: Miscellaneous
9.1 Italics
9.2 Boldface
9.3 Small capitals
9.4 Parentheses
etc.

Chapter 10: Punctuating essays and letters
10.1 Titles and section headings
10.2 Footnotes
10.3 References to published work
10.4 Bibliography
etc.



Bibliography : p. 157 . _ Index : p. 159-162.

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