Brief Guide to Punctuation - Stockton College

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Table of Contents This guide has two parts. The first offers brief explanations of the more significant forms of punctuation; the second gives examples of light and heavy punctuation. I. Punctuation expresses meaning 7 Punctuation over time 7 Reading punctuation 8 Guide to punctuation 9 Commas in a list 9 Commas with adjectives 9 Commas between independent clauses 11 Commas setting apart wording 12 Commas with introductory phrases and clauses 13 Restrictive and nonrestrictive wording 13 Which hunt 15 Appositives 16 Commas with parenthetical wording 16 Commas with concluding phrases and clauses 17 Commas and contrasting wording 18 Commas and omitted material 19 Implied vs. actual subjects 19 Comma don’ts 19 Semicolons 21 Semicolons and conjunctive adverbs 21 Semicolons in complex series 22 Colons 23 Colons, semicolons, and periods 24 A common mistake with colons 25 Dashes and parentheses 25
Apostrophes 27 Possessive pronouns 28 Punctuating quotations 29 Punctuation used to introduce quotations 31 Hyphens 32 The Use of Ellipses 32 Then vs. than 37 Incomplete sentences 38 II. Weighting punctuation 39 Lighter and heavier punctuation 40 Essay checklist 46 Glossary 47 A life with punctuation, briefly 49 Front advertisement is taken from The Boston Almanac for the Year 1867; back advertisement, from Peterson’s Ladies National Magazine, April 1880.
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Page 8 and 9: INTRODUCTION 7 Punctuation expresse
Page 10 and 11: COMMAS 9 Guide to punctuation Speec
Page 12 and 13: COMMAS 11 that views pungent and ol
Page 14 and 15: COMMAS 13 Commas with introductory
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Page 18 and 19: COMMAS 17 The train, as far as I sa
Page 20 and 21: COMMAS 19 Commas and omitted materi
Page 22 and 23: COMMAS & SEMICOLONS 21 In the first
Page 24 and 25: SEMICOLONS & COLONS 23 The coffee e
Page 26 and 27: COLONS, DASHES AND PARENTHESES 25 A
Page 28 and 29: APOSTROPHES 27 Apostrophes Use apos
Page 30 and 31: PUNCTUATING QUOTATIONS 29 Punctuati
Page 32 and 33: PUNCTUATING QUOTATIONS 31 Punctuati
Page 34 and 35: ELLIPSIS 33 Way back in the mists o
Page 36 and 37: ELLIPSIS 35 The moniker made great
Page 38 and 39: THEN VS. THAN 37 “This inaugural
Page 40 and 41: LIGHT & HEAVY PUNCTUATION 39 Weight
Page 42 and 43: LIGHT & HEAVY PUNCTUATION 41 Heavie
Page 48 and 49: GLOSSARY 47 Glossary Appositive. An
Page 50 and 51: 49 A life with punctuation, briefly
Page 52 and 53: NOTES 51

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