+Apostrophe+.--Use the apostrophe (1) to mark the omission of letters, (2)
in the pluralizing of letters, figures, and characters, and (3) to
distinguish the possessive from other cases.
+Hyphen+.--Use the hyphen (-) (1) to join the parts of compound words, and
(2) between syllables when a word is divided.
+Quotation Marks+.--Use quotation marks to inclose a copied word or
passage. If the quotation contains a quotation, the latter is inclosed
within single marks. (See Lesson 74.)
+Brackets+.--Use brackets [ ] to inclose what, in quoting another's words,
you insert by way of explanation or correction.
+Direction+.--_Justify the marks of punctuation used in these sentences_:--
1. Luke says, Acts xxi. 15, "We took up our carriages [luggage], and went
up to Jerusalem."
2. The last sentence of the composition was, "I close in the words of
Patrick Henry, 'Give me liberty, or give me death.'"
3. _Red-hot_ is a compound adjective.
4. _Telegraph_ is divided thus: _tel_-_e_-_graph_.
5. The profound learning of Sir William Jones (he was master of
twenty-eight languages) was the wonder of his contemporaries.
6. By means of the apostrophe you know that _love_ in _mother's love_ is a
noun, and that i's isn't a verb.
+Direction+.
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