Punctuation S2013

You will see that I have posted last year’s second exam for your reading pleasure.

Carpet pages

Samples from Morte d’Arthur

Paper & Vellum copies of the Gutenberg Bible

Ransom Gutenberg

Caxton’s Chaucer

Here is the grammar I want you to know in a handy guide to syntax, sentence structure, and punctuation.

Syntactical Structures, Units of Meaning, and Hints for Punctuation

. . . as it originally appeared at its first publication in Poetry, April 1913.

In a Station of the Metro

The apparition     of these faces     in the crowd   :
Petals     on a wet, black     bough   .

Here’s a link to the most recent version of my Brief Guide to Punctuation in pdf format.