The plain guide to the clear presentation of written language: punctuation is the `nuts and bolts' of the English language, and here is the ideal everyday companion.

Punctuation has been described as `a courtesy designed to help readers understand a story without stumbling'. Included in this essential guide are:

- a Victorian schoolmistress's 10 Golden Rules Rules of Punctuation

- how to deal with capitalisation, full stops and commas

- mastery of colons, parentheses, dashes, hyohen hassle, questions, exclamations and apostrophes

- the ultimate punctuation test

- witty cartoons by Hunt Emerson