The plain guide to the clear presentation of written language

Punctuation is the ‘nuts and bolts’ of the English language, and here is the ideal everyday companion.

Punctuation has been described as ‘a courtesy designed to help readers understand a story without stumbling’.

Included in this essential guide are:

• ‘Ten Golden Rules of Punctuation’ by a Victorian schoolmistress
• how to deal with capitalization, full stops and commas
• mastery of colons, parentheses, dashes, hyphens, questions, exclamations and apostrophes
• the ultimate punctuation test
• witty cartoons by Hunt Emerson