T. FISHER UNWIN LTD.

ADELPHI TERRACE

Eighteenth Impression
1895

CONTENTS

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[INTRODUCTION][7]
[THE FULL STOP][15]
[THE COMMA][19]
[THE SEMICOLON][43]
[THE COLON][46]
[THE POINT OF INTERROGATION][52]
[THE MARK OF EXCLAMATION][56]
[THE DASH][61]
[BRACKETS (OR THE PARENTHESIS)][66]
[INVERTED COMMAS][70]
[ITALICS][76]
[THE HYPHEN][78]
[THE APOSTROPHE][84]
[ELLIPSIS][87]
[REFERENCES TO NOTES][89]
[CORRECTION OF PROOFS][94]

INTRODUCTION

The Use of Punctuation.—Punctuation is a device for marking out the arrangement of a writer's ideas. Reading is thereby made easier than it otherwise would be.