21st Century Grammar Handbook

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21st century grammar
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Pay, paid, paid. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past participle forms.
Percent. The word percent can also be represented by the symbol%. Inmost istandard English writing that is not highly mathematical, scienti cor commercial,
the word is spelled out instead of using the symbol. In tables and other places where space is limited, the symbol can appear rather than the word.
Period. The punctuation mark that ends most sentences is the period (.). Question
marks and exclamation points can also end sentences, and any ending punctuation can be enclosed in quotes, parentheses, or brackets: Here is an example The example could have been enclosed in parentheses or brackets as well as quotes, and
(at least in theory) the sentence could have been construed as a question or command ending appropriately.
Periods are also used to mark the ends of most abbreviations: The philosopher received the PhD. degree with honors Some styles reduce or eliminate periods after abbreviations The stockbroker arrived at 6 am, and went home at 7 pm.”
Ellipses are strings of periods used to indicate that words have been dropped from a statement, particularly a quoted passage The chairperson stated, The budget must be examined … and pro ts must rise Three ellipses points indicate words dropped within a sentence, and four appear at the end of a sentence to show continuation
(unless the shortened passage ends with other punctuation What are the consequences of using the active voice, the passive voice, and Periods never fall outside quotation marks as the nal punctuation of a sentence.
WRONG: Here is an example. Such punctuation is used only in British English and is not the right way to indicate that a quoted passage ends with other punctuation in the source even though you have chosen to end the statement at the point shown. If such speci city is necessary, you can indicate source ending punctuation with ellipses and brackets, still followed by period and quotes Kennedy said, Ask not what you can do for your country […].’” If the ellipses and brackets were not used in this sentence, it would properly end as “… your country The period is inside all quotes.
Periods can come outside brackets (as shown in the preceding examples) or

parentheses when a full sentence is not set o parenthetically The poet wrote anode (I can’t remember the title Even though the parenthetical expression is a whole sentence, it does not end in a period, while the full sentence ends after the parenthetical expression and therefore does show a period. Full sentences within parentheses and not contained within other sentences end with periods inside the parentheses The ode is called To a Sparrow Note that the period in this case is inside the single quote mark as well.

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