#punctuation

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The stops point out, with truth, the time of pause A sentence doth require at ev'ry clause. t ev'ry comma, stop while one you count; At semicolon, two is the amount; A colon doth require the time of three; The period four, as learned men agree.


Cecil Hartley


#men

I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.


Sarah Dessen


#punctuation #grammar

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.


Lynne Truss


#grammar #manners #punctuation #grammar

...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.


Lynne Truss


#punctuation #grammar

Punctuation, is? fun!


Daniel Keyes


#punctuation #humor

Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.


S.A.R.K.


#exclamation #punctuation #change

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?


Lynne Truss


#english-language #grammar #humor #lynne-truss #punctuation

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Terry Pratchett


#oath #punctuation #humor

A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation. Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.


Lynne Truss


#punctuation #guns

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.


Brian P. Cleary


#all things #alphabet #already #books #covered