Improve Your Punctuation: Learn the Skills, Master the Language

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:

- ‘Ten Golden Rules of Punctuation’ by a Victorian schoolmistress

- how to deal with capitalization, full stops and commas

- mastery of colons, parentheses, dashes, hyphens, questions, exclamations and apostrophes

- the ultimate punctuation test

- witty cartoons by Hunt Emerson

Derrida and the End of History

Questioning History ‘How can one be late to the end of history? A question for today.’1 Jacques Derrida’s fame rests  largely on his ability to devise eccentric approaches to philosophical and cultural problems, and he might well be thought to have excelled himself with this particular question. Assuming, that is, that one felt ‘the end of history’ made any sense as a concept, given that, as some thinkers would have it, history is the equivalent of humankind’s memory

DERRIDA AND LACAN

Derrida presents deconstruction as if it were not a thesis.
Perhaps deconstruction is almost nothing more than the most
extreme consequence of Saussure’s linguistics. Following Saussure,
Derrida understands a ‘text’ as a system in which a plurality of differences
precedes any presence and makes it possible; and conversely,
any system of differences may be deemed a ‘text’. The significance of
each element of a text is determined by its differ 

 

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When the subject is an infinitive phrase, the sentence often begins with it. Instead of saying ‘To find fault with others is easy’, we say, ‘It is easy to find fault with others’. More examples are given below. It is easy to learn English. (More natural than ‘To learn English is easy’).

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingwayby Ernest Hemingway

In ‘‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro,’’Ernest Hemingway presents the story of a writer at the end of his life.