Punctuation, Formatting and Capitalisation Flashcards
EU member state
EU Member State
black and white
black-and-white
Bullet point lists
colon, then semi-colons, NO capitals, and a full stop AT THE END of all options, except for short lists without a verb, where we use a comma and full stop AND capitals with full stop if there are full sentences in the options when the preceding is an incomplete sentence: https://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-250700.htm
high quality
high-quality
the moon
the Moon (usually optional, but because there is the phrase “the Moon and Mars”, it looks better together when both capitalised)
Government
Both, but it is easier to just not capitalise it.
Dashes -
Easier to just not use them (use brackets instead, for example), but use EM dash if really needed.
Punctuation for odd words
We use quotation marks to emphasise the strangeness of words.
TITLES, when there is a “THE” before a title, even if there is a name
DO NOT capitalise (i.e. the vice minister Bruce Wayne)
Italicise v.s. Quotation Marks (inverted commas) when mentioning other works
BIG = italics, SMALL = quotation marks (i.e. The Economist’s “Where are the people?”)
Foreign words - not translated
ITALICS!!!
Blocks of dialogue: Punctuation in Literature v,s, news
Literature: With comma (so, you must put the last part together with dialogue) / News: with colon (must be separate)
groups, like for example
groups like, for example,
30’s
30s (NO apostrophe)
NGO’s
NGOs
