Introduction: Punctuation Is Easy, Except When It’s Not
How to Use This Book
Part I. Guidelines
Apostrophe
Comma
Period
Colon
Semicolon
Quotation Mark
Single Quotation Mark
Question Mark
Exclamation Point
Ellipsis
Hyphen
Em Dash
En Dash
Parenthesis
Bracket
Slash and Backslash
Lists
Numbers and Addresses
Part II. Punctuation A to Z
Appendix A: Understanding Grammatical Units:
Phrases, Clauses, Sentences, and Sentence Fragments
Appendix B: Identifying Parts of Speech for Better Punctuation
Acknowledgments
About the Author and Punctuation Panel
Index
JUNE CASAGRANDE is the author of the weekly syndicated “A Word, Please” grammar column and a copy editor for the custom publishing department of the Los Angeles Times. She has worked as a reporter, features writer, city editor, proofreader, and copyediting instructor for UC San Diego Extension. She is the author of Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies, Mortal Syntax, and It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences. She lives in Pasadena, California, with her husband. Visit www.junecasagrande.com.
“Ridiculously useful. The best book on punctuation I’ve ever
seen.”
—Mignon Fogarty, author of Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for
Better Writing
“Invaluable reference work for professional proofreaders, editors,
and writers because it is the only book that presents Chicago, AP,
APA, and MLA conventions side by side. (Acronym-free translation:
for each use of each punctuation mark, this book clearly explains
and illustrates the practices used by book publishers, the news
media, social science publications, and nonscientific academic
papers and journal articles.)”
—Amy Einsohn, author of The Copyeditor’s Handbook
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