SUBJECT INDEX
a
| ABBREVIATIONS, 42-3, 152, 159, 216 |
| abruptness, 69, 70 |
| accents, 225-6 |
| acute accent, 225 |
| addresses, 25-6, 61 ; |
| American: 216 |
| adjectives, 17-19, 143-6 (hyphens) |
| adverbial clauses, 38 |
| -phrases, 38 |
| adverbs, 20-1, 142, 147 |
| -, connective, 100-1 |
| all in all,101 |
| also,46 |
| ambiguity, 137, 183, 184 |
| American characteristics, 6, 211-13, 223 |
| -punctuation, x, 181, 211-21 |
| ampersand, 226 |
| and,101 |
| annunciatory, 53-4, 72 |
| anomaly, an, 13 |
| antithesis, 45-6, 57, 119, 123 |
| apostrophe, the, 155-61, 221 |
| apparently,100 |
| apposition, 37, 41, 47, 55, 69 ; |
| American: 216 |
| assent, 38 |
| asterisk, 82-3, 219, 226 |
| at least,47-8 |
b
| BECAUSE,101 |
| besides,98 |
| best, better,144 |
| bibliography, punctuation in, 47, 218 |
| brace, the, 153-4 |
| brackets, 65-6, 218 |
| breve, the, 225 |
| business aspects, 11-12, 111, 183-4 |
| but,217 |
| but nevertheless,217 |
| by the way,99 |
c
| CALENDAR, the, 113 |
| capitals, 107-17, 127-9, 151 |
| (hy phens), 171 |
| (quotation); |
| American: 219-20 |
| capitals, small, 107, 129 |
| catalogues, 47, 108 |
| causal clauses, 38 |
| cedilla, 225 |
| centred headings, 169 |
| circumflex, 225 |
| clarity, 8, 103, 183 |
| clauses, 29-36, 45-6, 50 |
| close punctuation, 94-103 |
| co-,137, 151 |
| colon, 52-62, 77, 92, 131, 172-3 ; |
| American: 213, 215 |
| -dash, 87, 92, 172-3 |
| comma, 14-41, 77, 92, 94-103 (passim), 173-4 |
| (quotations); |
| American: 14, 216, 217-18 |
| -dash, 87, 92 |
| commonsense, and good sense, 7, 160-1 |
| compound points, 86-9, 219 |
| -words, 136-51 |
| conclusions, conclusives, 60, 72-3 |
| conditional, the, 38 |
| conjunctions, 21-2 ; |
| American: 217-18 |
| contractions, 42-3, 216 |
| conventions, 211-12 |
| cumulatives, 45, 59-60 |
| curtailments, 216 |
| curves=parentheses, 218 |
d
| DAGGER, the, 226 |
| dash, compound, 83, 86-8, 92 |
| -, simple, 68-78, 83, 92, 131 ; |
| American: 218-19 |
| dates and times, 61-2 |
| definitions, 108 |
| diacritics, 225-6 |
| diaeresis, 220, 225 |
| dialect, 120, 124 |
| dialogue, 7, 73-4 |
| differentiation, 39-40 |
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Publication information:
Book title: You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies.
Contributors: Eric Partridge - Author.
Publisher: Routledge & K Paul.
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 1977.
Page number: 227.
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