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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION i PROOF-READERS AND PROOF-READING 23 SPACING AND SYLLABIFICATION 41 PUNCTUATION 52 The Period 65 Ellipsis Points 68 The Colon 7 The Semicolon 78 The Comma 89 The Dash 125 The en-dash 125 The 2-em dash 125 The dash proper, or em-dash .127 The Hyphen 140 Parentheses 141 Brackets 145 The Exclamation Mark 146 The Question Mark 150 Quotation Marks 153 The Apostrophe 161 ABBREVIATIONS 163 CAPITALIZATION 168 ITALICS 179 SPELLING 186 COMPOUND WORDS 197 SUGGESTIONS CONCERNING RELATIVE PRONOUNS I. "Who," "Which," or "That," with a Personal or Quasi-personal Antecedent 207 II. "Whom "used for "Who" . 2IO
