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AMA Manual of Style (10th ed.) : A Guide for Authors and Editors

AMA Manual of Style Committee

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Mar 2007
Print ISBN-13:
9780195176339
Published to AMA Manual of Style:
Apr 2009
DOI:
10.1093/jama/9780195176339.001.0001
© American Medical Association
Contents

Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point

Chapter:
Punctuation
Author(s):

Cheryl Iverson

  • …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 now.
  •      Lynne Truss1

Periods, question marks, and exclamation points are the 3 end-of-sentence punctuation marks.