How to Parse: An Attempt to Apply the Principles of Scholarship to English ...
How to Parse: An Attempt to Apply the Principles of Scholarship to English ...
Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926
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HINTS ON PUNCTUATION. 2ga Stops, or Marks of the Division of Sentences. 1. Full Stop . . (.) 6. Note of Interrogation . (?) 2. Colon ...(:) 6. Note of Exclamation . . (!) 8. Semi-colon . (;) 7. The "dash "or "break ". (—) 4. Comma . . (,) 8. Marks of Parenthesis . ( ) 9. Inverted commas, or, Marks of Quotation (" ") 2Q3 Use of Stops. — The meaning of a sentence often depends on the pauses after certain words. These pauses are represented by marks, sometimes called (from their effect) Stops, and... sometimes (from their appearance) Points. The Latin for " point " is punctum, and accordingly the arrangement of points in a sentence is called Punctuation : — " John," said Thomas, " would come if he could." Omit the points in the foregoing sentence, and it becomes ambiguous. 294 The Comma. — The Comma (meaning "that which is cut off") marks the smallest " cutting off," or division of a sentence. Digitized by Google 186 HINTS ON [Par. 295. I. Rule. — When a word is separated from its grammatical adjunct hy any intervening phrase, the phrcue should be preceded and followed by a Comma: — *'Tbe traveller, after alighting from hit horse, entered the inn." ** His conduct, according to his own account^ is inexcusable." ''The king, wearied by the woman's im- portonity, granted her request." Verb separated from Subject.
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