TY - BOOK AU - Trask, R. L. TI - The penguin guide to punctuation: R. L. Trask. SN - 9780140513660 U1 - 421.1 22 PY - 1997///. CY - London PB - Penguin books KW - Punctuation N1 - 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. ER -