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Take this interactive, practice-packed lesson on using dashes and parentheses correctly to polish your writing skills.--Publisher.

We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful...

Despite the humble origins of its name, the dot has been one of the most versatile players in the history of written communication. The Humez brothers shed light on the dot in all its various forms--as a mark of punctuation and a notation in mathematics and music--take readers on an engaging tour of the highways and byways of language, ranging from the history of the question mark and its lesser known offshoots the point dʹironie and the interrobang,...

Recent technological developments such as email, text messages and online instant messaging have required many English expressions to be simplified, prompting people to question whether punctuation is still necessary. This program explores the continuing importance of learning to master punctuation and provides a straightforward review of the five most commonly-used punctuation marks: capital letters, periods, question marks, exclamation marks, and...

A guide to the understanding and correct usage of different parts of grammar and marks of punctuation.

Struggling with punctuation? Take this interactive, practice-packed lesson on punctuating quotations.--Publisher.

The lessons in this tutorial cover the rules and strategies needed by college students to identify and correct common punctuation errors in their academic writing. Students will find instruction and practice detailing clauses and phrases, inside punctuation, quotation marks, italics, the apostrophe, and more.

"This is the lesson review quiz for Unit 3, Lesson 1of the Grammar Skills Tutorial. Read each question and then select the best answer." --

Recent technological developments such as email, text messages and online instant messaging have required many English expressions to be simplified, prompting people to question whether punctuation is still necessary. This program explores the continuing importance of learning to master punctuation and provides a straightforward review of apostrophes and quotation marks.