Punctuation

Quotation Marks — UK vs US Compared

On the copy desk, halfway through a piece — which side of the Atlantic are your quotes on

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Quotation Marks — Pick Your Variety

Single or double, UK or US — pick your quote-mark style once and never wobble again

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Dashes (En & Em)

That aside you tack onto an email at 4:55 on a Friday — en dash or em, sorted

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Hyphens & Compound Adjectives

You write 'ten year old boy' and pause — is that hyphenated, and where exactly do they go

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Parentheses & Brackets

Finishing an email at ten to five, you wonder where the full stop lands with brackets

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Punctuation — Complete Map

Nobody apologises for their nouns, but everyone flinches at a comma — here's the whole map

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