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Tables of Contents for The Penguin Guide to Punctuation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
viii
To the Reader
ix
Why Learn to Punctuate?
1
4
The Full Stop, the Question Mark and the Exclamation Mark
5
8
The Full Stop
5
3
The Question Mark
8
1
The Exclamation Mark
9
2
A Final Point
11
1
Fragments
12
1
The Comma
13
25
The Listing Comma
13
4
The Joining Comma
17
2
The Gapping Comma
19
2
Bracketing Commas
21
12
Summary of Commas
33
5
The Colon and the Semicolon
38
10
The Colon
38
3
The Semicolon
41
4
The Colon and the Semicolon Compared
45
3
The Apostrophe
48
11
Contractions
49
5
Unusual Plurals
54
2
Possessives
56
3
The Hyphen and the Dash
59
14
The Hyphen
59
9
The Dash
68
5
Capital Letters and Abbreviations
73
21
Capital Letters
73
12
Abbreviations
85
9
Quotation Marks
94
19
Quotation Marks and Direct Quotations
94
13
Scare Quotes
107
2
Quotation Marks in Titles
109
1
Talking About Words
110
3
Miscellaneous
113
25
Italics
113
4
Boldface
117
1
Small Capitals
118
1
Parentheses
119
3
Square Brackets
122
1
The Ellipsis
123
1
The Slash
124
1
Numerals, Fractions and Dates
125
4
Diacritics
129
3
The Other Marks on Your Keyboard
132
3
Priority Among Punctuation Marks
135
3
Punctuating Essays and Letters
138
19
Titles and Section Headings
138
3
Footnotes
141
4
References to Published Work
145
4
Bibliography
149
5
Paragraphing
154
1
Punctuating Letters
155
2
Bibliography
157
1
Other Useful Works on Punctuation
158
1
Index
159