Part 174 (2/2)

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION

FALSE PUNCTUATION--ERRORS CONCERNING THE DASH

UNDER RULE I--ABRUPT PAUSES

”And there is soe story, that resemblesDoes Mr Bevil know your history particularly?”--See _Key_

[FORMULE--Not proper, because the abrupt pause after _rese to Rule 1st for the Dash ”A sudden interruption, break, or transition, should be marked with the dash”

Therefore, the dash should be preferred to these points]

”Sir, Mr Myrtle, Gentlemen! You are friends; I am but a servant

But”--See _Key_

”Another iven plump into this foolish story; but I? No, no, your hue thyself too far in anger lest thou hasten thy trial; which if Lord have mercy on thee for a hen!”--See _Key_

”But ere they came, O, let me say no more!

Gather the sequel by that went before”--See _Key_

UNDER RULE II--EMPHATIC PAUSES

”_M_, Malvolio; _M_, why, that begins my name”

[FORMULE--Not proper, because the pauses after _M_ and _Malvolio_ see to Rule 2d for the Dash, ”To reater than the structure of the sentence or the points inserted would seem to require, the dash may be employed”

Therefore, a dash may be set after the commas and the semicolon, in this sentence]

”Thus, by the creative influence of the Eternal Spirit, were the heavens and the earth finished in the space of six days, so aded into a system of perfect order and beauty, that the adorable Architect hiood, and all the sons of God shouted for joy”--See _Key_

”If I were an An troop remained in my country, I NEVER would lay down my arms; NEVER, NEVER, NEVER”--_Columbian Orator_, p 265

”Madam, yourself are not exeham, nor you”--See _Key_

UNDER RULE III--FAULTY DASHES

”--You shall go home directly, Le Fevre, said my uncle Toby, to my house,--and we'll send for a doctor to see what's the matter,--and we'll have an apothecary,--and the corporal shall be your nurse;--and I'll be your servant, Le Fevre”--STERNE: _Enfield's Speaker_, p 306

[FORMULE--Not proper, because all the dashes here quoted, except perhaps the last, are useless, or obviously substituted forto Rule 3d, ”Dashes needlessly inserted, or substituted for other stops eneral to be treated as errors in punctuation” Therefore, the first of these should be sied; the second, third, and fourth, with their coed to semicolons; and the last, with its semicolon, may well be made a colon]

”He continued--Inferior artists may be at a stand, because they want materials”--HARRIS: _Enfield's Speaker_, p 191 ”Thus, then, continued he--The end in other arts is ever distant and removed”--_Id, ib_

”The nouns must be coupled with _and_, and when a pronoun is used it must be plural, as in the example--When the nouns are _disjoined_ the pronoun ular”--_Lennie's Gram_, 5th Ed, p 57

”_Opinion_ is a noun or substantive coender,--noht's Philos Gram_, p 228