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abbreviation additional Adrian answer attention beginning broken called capital chapter clauses close colon comma commence common complete connected corrections custom dash Dear Sir definition Deity Dependent direct divisions draw drawn envelope EXAMPLES exclamation point expressions fact Father frequently give given hand heading hyphen immediately important indicate introduced introductory words italics kings lady lives Lord Madame margin meaning Miss mistake month nature necessary never nouns omission omitted paragraph parenthetical marks period person phrases placed preceded printed printer proof proper properly punctuation marks quotation quotation marks quoted referring relative REMARKS repeated requires respect rest RULE salutation says semicolon sense sentence separated short small letters sometimes space street taken things tion usually verb William K writers written young
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Hand-book of Punctuation: With Instructions for Capitalization, Letter-writing, and Proof-reading |
| Author | William Johnson Cocker |
| Publisher | American Book Company, 1878 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 127 pages |
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