Sentence examples for for the punctuation from inspiring English sources

Adam is the star reporter of The Slash, a paper named for the punctuation mark that so aptly describes the school as a place of painful transition: Harris Elementary/Middle School.

Except for the punctuation and sentence template rules (r1 and r2 above), all linearisation rules are applicable to NPs.

Which is why their official style guide calls for the punctuation shown in this sentence: "Billy gets mostly Bs and Cs and a few A's". That's right, The Times has a different rule for A than for B. Other publications and style guides would say to put the apostrophe in B's and C's, too, for consistency's sake.

Instruct the students to correct the two sentences and then to derive, from the examples, specific rules for proper usage of the punctuation marks in question.

Despite her assertion that "being burned as a witch is not safely enough off the agenda" for the punctuation-minded stickler, Ms. Truss obviously hit a raw nerve.

However, I have spotted and corrected several typos in my review, and furthermore, for some reason, all the punctuation except for periods has disappeared from the text of the review.

For Mr. Obama, it was the punctuation of weeks of high-profile outings in which he has spoken of American exceptionalism.

More elegantly, tweeters have taken to all-caps or all-lowercase styling, dropping the punctuation for a sly deadpan delivery. .

The information you include will be the same as the information used for a footnote, but the punctuation varies.

The pause you take for breath comes at the punctuation, regardless of where it occurs in the line.

Because there are no quotation marks for a long quote, the punctuation goes at the end of the quoted material, not after the citation, whereas the punctuation appears after the in-text citation for a short quote.