Punctuation. Part 2

Best of Rally Live "2011 WRC Rally de Espana - Day Two" October 22, 2011 via Flickr
non-commercial reuse no-derivs

In this post, I will continue to reflect on the punctuation from Rules for Writers.

Quotation Marks
Quotation marks are used almost exclusively when quoting other people's words. They can also be used as a semi-ironic use of a word or as scare quotes.

Ex.
John called him "the biggest idiot I ever met."

End Punctuation
End punctuation determines how you place punctuation at the end of certain structure. An example of this is not including extra punctuation when you have an e.g. or putting the punctuation inside the quotation marks if a quote ends the sentence.

Ex.
John called him "the biggest idiot I ever met."

The Colon
Colons are usually used to offset something from the rest of the sentence. This is often an appositive or something of the sort. The easiest way to show this is to give an example so I shall.

Ex. That test was written by Scattante himself: the devil.