rule_06.dita

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    <title>Rule 6</title>
    <shortdesc>Do not break sentences in two.</shortdesc>
    <conbody>
        <p>In other words, do not use periods for commas.</p>
        <lq> I met them on a Cunard liner several years ago. Coming home from Liverpool to New
            York.</lq>
        <lq> He was an interesting talker. A man who had traveled all over the world and lived in
            half a dozen countries. </lq>
        <p>In both these examples, the first period should be replaced by a comma, and the following
            word begun with a small letter.</p>
        <p>It is permissible to make an emphatic word or expression serve the purpose of a sentence
            and to punctuate it accordingly:</p>
        <lq> Again and again he called out. No reply. </lq>
        <p>The writer must, however, be certain that the emphasis is warranted, and that he will not
            be suspected of a mere blunder in syntax or in punctuation.</p>
        <p>Rules <xref keyref="rule_03">3</xref>, <xref keyref="rule_04">4</xref>, <xref
                keyref="rule_05">5</xref>, and <xref keyref="rule_06">6</xref> cover the most
            important principles in the punctuation of ordinary sentences; they should be so
            thoroughly mastered that their application becomes second nature.</p>
    </conbody>
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