The Penguin Writers' Writers' Guides series provides authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English. Whether you need to brush up your skills or get to grips with something for the first time, these invaluable Guides will help you find the best way to get your message across clearly and effectively.
This practical one-stop guide explains all the punctuation marks you are ever likely to encounter. From commas to colon, it shows you which marks to use and where to put them is a sentence, with helpful examples of correct and incorrect use and advicde for writing on computers. Ideal for both quick reference and in-depth browsing, the guide provides all the tips and techngues you need for accurate punctuation.
1. What is punctuation for?
2. Good and bad punctuation-and how to improve yours
3. Sentences and non-sentences
4. Full stops
5. Question marks
6. Exclamation marks
7. Commas
8. Semicolons
9. Colons
10. Dashes
etc.