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 The Interrogation Is used— After every sentence or expression asking a direct question.

Inclosed in parentheses, to express doubt or uncertainty.

Inside the quotation marks when it is a part of the quotation; otherwise outside,

The Colon

Is used— Before statements or specifications introduced by a general statement, or by such words as thus or as follows.

Before a long and formal quotation.

Before a series of details in apposition with some general term; as, The three families into which mankind is divided: Caucasian, Mongolian, and Negro.

After the salutatory phrase at the beginning of a letter, if, for special reasons, this phrase is not run in. The usual office practice is to run such salutatory phrase in, with a comma and an em dash, the body of the letter following.

After the introductory remark of a speaker, addressing the chairman or the audience.

Between the place of publication and the publisher’s name in literary references; as, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Inside the quotation marks when it is a part of the quotation; otherwise outside.

The Semicolon

Is used—

In a compound sentence, between clauses that are not joined by a conjunction; as,—


 * “The army was made up of various elements, —more or less cöordinate: dismounted cavalry, called the ‘horse infantry’; zouaves, in their picturesque red jackets and baggy trousers; artillerymen; and a few troops of cavalry.”

Between clauses of a compound sentence that form a series dependent on the opening words of the sentence; as,—


 * “I shall relate how the settlement was &mldr; defended against foreign and domestic enemies; how, under that settlement, the authority of law and the security of property &mldr; never before known; how our country &mldr; rose to the place of umpire &mldr;; how her opulence and her martial glory grew together.”