Why We Punctuate

About this eBook

Author

Klein, William Livingston, 1851-

Title

Why We Punctuate; or, Reason Versus Rule in the Use of Marks

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PE: Language and Literatures: English

Subject

English language -- Punctuation

Category

Text

eBook-No.

47126

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47126

Release Date

October 15, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.WHY WE PUNCTUATE
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.CHAPTER I THE FUNCTIONS OF MARKS, AND HOW PERFORMED — REAL AND APPARENT MEANINGS
6. 6.CHAPTER II THE FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE OF PUNCTUATION—GROUPING — THE NAMES OF MARKS — THE RELATIVE VALUES OF MARKS — PUNCTUATION OF A SERIES
7. 7.CHAPTER III MODIFIED PARENTHESIS, EXPLANATORY AND RESTRICTIVE TERMS, AFTER-THOUGHT, AND APPOSITIVES
8. 8.CHAPTER IV GROUPING DONE BY THE SEMICOLON AND THE COLON
9. 9.CHAPTER V SOME USES OF THE DASH
10. 10.CHAPTER VI PUNCTUATION BY REASON AND CONVENTION — FIRST, SECOND, WHEN, NOW, BECAUSE, ETC. — YES, NO, AGAIN, ETC.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII COMMA, SEMICOLON, COLON, AND PERIOD—THEIR DIFFERENTIATION — COMMA AND SEMICOLON
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII COMMA, DASH, AND PARENTHESES—THEIR DIFFERENTIATION — COMMAS AND PARENTHESES — DASHES AND PARENTHESES
13. 13.CHAPTER IX MISCELLANEOUS USES OF MARKS — ADJECTIVES BEFORE A NOUN — DOUBLE OBJECT — A “LONG” SUBJECT — DOUBTFUL MODIFIERS — INTERMEDIATE RESTRICTIVE GROUPS — NOT—BUT — O and OH
14. 14.CHAPTER X CONVENTIONAL USES OF MARKS — THE PERIOD — THE COLON — THE SEMICOLON — THE INTERROGATION-POINT — THE EXCLAMATION-POINT — ELLIPSIS
15. 15.CHAPTER XI QUOTATION-MARKS
16. 16.CHAPTER XII BRACKETS AND PARENTHESES
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII ABBREVIATIONS AND MISCELLANY — FORM OF ADDRESS — FIRM OR CORPORATION NAMES — FIGURES — TIME OF DAY — TEMPERATURE, ETC. — BIBLE REFERENCES — FOOT-NOTES — STAR, DAGGER, ETC. — MISCELLANEOUS — THE APOSTROPHE — WHEREAS—RESOLVED
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV COMPOUND WORDS
19. 19.CHAPTER XV CLOSE AND OPEN PUNCTUATION
20. 20.INDEX
21. 21.FOOTNOTES:

Community reviews

Sign in to write a review.

No reviews yet.