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"Stops", by Paul Allardyce
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Title: "Stops" Or How to Punctuate. A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students
Author: Paul Allardyce
Release Date: March 29, 2007 [eBook #20938]
Language: English
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"STOPS"
Or, How to Punctuate
A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students
by
PAUL ALLARDYCE
"For a reader that pointeth ill, A good sentence oft may spill."
--CHAUCER--Romaunt of the Rose
London T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. Adelphi Terrace Eighteenth Impression 1895
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE FULL STOP
THE COMMA
THE SEMICOLON
THE COLON
THE POINT OF INTERR