Chapter IV: PUNCTUATION, pp. 219-290

General difficulties 219

General principles 224

The spot plague 226

Over-stopping 231

Under-stopping 234

Grammar and punctuation 235-263

Substantival clauses 235

Subject, &c., and verb 239

Adjectival clauses 242

Adverbial clauses 244

Parenthesis 247

Misplaced commas 248

Enumeration 250

Comma between independent sentences 254

Semicolon with subordinate members 257

Exclamations and statements 258

Exclamations and questions 259

Internal question and exclamation marks 261

Unaccountable commas 262

The colon 263

Miscellaneous 264

Dashes 266-275

General abuse 266

Legitimate uses 267

Debatable questions 269

Common misuses 274

Hyphens 275

Quotation marks 280-290

Excessive use 280

Order with stops 282

Single and double 287

Misplaced 288

Half quotation 289