Punctuation has been described as "a courtesy designed to help readers understand a story without stumbling." Included in this essential guide are Ten Golden Rules of Punctuation by a Victorian schoolmistress; how to deal with capitalization, full stops, and commas; mastery of colons, parentheses, dashes, hyphen hassle, questions, exclamations, and apostrophes; the ultimate punctuation test; and witty cartoons by Hunt Emerson.