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Exclamation Point
Cheryl Iverson
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Exclamation points indicate emotion, an outcry, or a forceful comment. Try to avoid their use except in direct quotations and in rare and special circumstances. They are not appropriate in scientific ...
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Period
Cheryl Iverson
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Periods are the most common end-of-sentence punctuation marks. Use a period at the end of a declarative or imperative sentence and at the end of each table footnote and each figure legend.Advances in ...
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Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point
Cheryl Iverson
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
…after journeying through the world of punctua- tion, and seeing what it can do, I am all the more convinced that we should fight like tigers to preserve our punctuation and we should start ...
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Question Mark
Cheryl Iverson
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The primary use of the question mark is to end interrogative sentences.When did he go into private practice? If this article were a work of the 1930s, not the 1990s, would we view it differently? And ...
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