Brief Guide to Punctuation - Stockton College

40 LIGHT & HEAVY PUNCTUATION
Lighter Punctuation
Whenever he spotted a paperclip on the ground he could not
walk past. He stopped and stooped and picked up those lonely
metal clips. At least they were metal in the old days. Now they
were plastic as well. He picked them up, and he wondered what
had become of the papers they had once secured.
The school pool which had developed a severe leak was drained
one final time. According to the highly paid planning team it made
sense not to repair the leak, but rather to convert the structure to
a dance hall. The conversion would cost about two million dollars.
Repair of the pool would have cost about half that amount. The
cost of an entirely new pool was closer to twenty million dollars.
With jaded resignation the swimmers on campus considered the
aerobic benefits of dance.