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- The Punctuation Guide
The web's most comprehensive guide to American punctuation
- Em dash - The Punctuation Guide
The em dash is perhaps the most versatile punctuation mark Depending on the context, the em dash can take the place of commas, parentheses, or colons —in each case to slightly different effect
- Comma - The Punctuation Guide
There are two schools of thought on how best to lighten the punctuation of such a sentence The traditional approach, advocated by William Strunk Jr in The Elements of Style, removes the comma after the conjunction
- Question mark | The Punctuation Guide
Terminal punctuation chart Use of the question mark with other punctuation, including quotation marks, is explained in the section on terminal punctuation
- Top 10 tips | The Punctuation Guide
The easiest way to solve a vexing punctuation problem is to avoid it If you aren’t sure how to properly punctuate a sentence—or if the proper punctuation results in a convoluted, confusing, or inelegant sentence—rewrite it
- Quotation marks - The Punctuation Guide
When the quoted material flows directly from your introductory text, no punctuation should be used before the quotation A very short quotation may also be introduced without punctuation
- Semicolon - The Punctuation Guide
Semicolon The semicolon is sometimes described as stronger than a comma but weaker than a period In certain uses, this is a reasonably accurate definition Yet there is more to the semicolon than that Between independent clauses when a coordinating conjunction is omitted Most commonly, the semicolon is used between two independent clauses (i e , clauses that could stand alone as separate
- Colon - The Punctuation Guide
Example Punctuation Quarterly 4:86–89 Explanation: This reads as “pages 86 through 89 of volume four ”
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