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Why We Punctuate

by William Livingston Klein

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Introduction
  4. 4Chapter I — The Functions of Marks, and How Performed
  5. 5Chapter II — The Fundamental Purpose of Punctuation — Grouping
  6. 6Chapter III — Modified Parenthesis, Explanatory and Restrictive Ter…
  7. 7Chapter IV — Grouping Done by the Semicolon and the Colon
  8. 8Chapter V — Some Uses of the Dash
  9. 9Chapter VI — Punctuation by Reason and Convention
  10. 10Chapter VII — Comma, Semicolon, Colon, and Period — Their Different…
  11. 11Chapter VIII — Comma, Dash, and Parentheses — Their Differentiation
  12. 12Chapter IX — Miscellaneous Uses of Marks
  13. 13Chapter X — Conventional Uses of Marks
  14. 14Chapter XI — Quotation-Marks
  15. 15Chapter XII — Brackets and Parentheses
  16. 16Chapter XIII — Abbreviations and Miscellany
  17. 17Chapter XIV — Compound Words
  18. 18Chapter XV — Close and Open Punctuation

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