Hand-book of Punctuation
by William Johnson Cocker
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About this eBook
- Author
- Cocker, William Johnson, 1846-1901
- Title
- Hand-book of punctuation : with instructions for capitalization, letter-writing, and proof-reading
- Original Publication
- New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1878.
- Credits
- Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- Letter writing
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 72479
- Release Date
- December 22, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.HAND-BOOK OF PUNCTUATION,
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.Table of Contents.
- 4.Punctuation. — Introduction. — THE COMMA. — INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. — GENERAL REMARK. — THE SEMICOLON. — GENERAL REMARK. — THE COLON. — GENERAL REMARK. — THE PERIOD. — INTERROGATION POINT. — EXCLAMATION POINT. — THE DASH. — GENERAL REMARK. — MARKS OF PARENTHESIS. — BRACKETS. — QUOTATION MARKS. — THE APOSTROPHE. — THE HYPHEN. — MISCELLANEOUS MARKS.
- 5.Capitals. — INTRODUCTION. — CAPITALS.
- 6.Letter-Forms. — INTRODUCTION. — THE ADDRESS. — INTRODUCTORY REMARK. — FORMS OF ADDRESS. — LETTER-FORMS. — I. THE HEADING. — II. THE ADDRESS. — III. INTRODUCTORY WORDS. — IV. BODY OF THE LETTER. — V. THE CONCLUSION. — SUMMARY.
- 7.Proof-Reading. — INTRODUCTION. — DEFINITIONS. — INTRODUCTORY REMARK. — GENERAL REMARK. — DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY.
- 8.INDEX.
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