ociety in town.

130. Do not use a comma or other punctuation mark with the parenthesis
marks unless it would be required even if there were no parenthesis.
When other punctuation is used it should follow the parenthesis.

They sent us (as they had agreed to do) all the papers in the case.

We expect John to bring his roommate home with him (he has been
very anxious to do so); but we expect no one else.

Modern usage is to avoid entirely the use of the parentheses.

_The Bracket_ [ ]

131. Use the bracket to enclose some statement or word of the writer
that is thrown into a quotation by way of explanation or otherwise.

His letter reads: "We have decided to get Mr. Howard [his cousin]
to deliver the address..."

_The Quotation Marks_ (" ")

132. Use quotation marks to enclose quotations of the exact language
of another.

The Bible says, "Charity suffereth long."

133. Use single quotation marks (' ') to enclose a quotation within
a quotation.

The speaker in closing said: "I can imagine no more inspiring words
than those of Nelson at Trafalgar, 'England expects every man to
do his duty.'"

134. If a quotation consists of several paragraphs, quotation marks
should precede each paragraph and follow the last.

135. Do not use quotation marks to enclose each separate sentence
of a single continuous quotation.

136. Do not use quotation marks to enclose well-known nicknames,
titles of books, proverbial phrases, or to indicate one's own literary
invention.

137. Examine the location of quotation marks and other punctuation
in the following sentences:

Wrong: "You may do as you wish, he said, if you only wish to do
right."

Right: "You may do as you wish," he said, "if you only wish to do
right."

Wrong: "Can you come," she asked?

Right: "Can you come?" she asked.

_The Apostrophe_ (')

138. Use the apostrophe to mark certain plurals and possessives.
See Sec.Sec. 13 and 15.

Use the apostrophe to indicate the omission of letters.

Doesn't, Can't, What's the matter?

_The Hyphen_ (-)

139. Use the hyphen when a word must be divided at the end of a
line.

Never divide words of one syllable, nor short words; such as, _though,
through, also, besides, over_, etc.

Never divide words except at the end of a syllable, and always
put the hyphen at the end of the first line, not at the beginning
of the second.

Wrong division: _int-end, prop-ose, superint-endent, expre-ssion_.

Proper divisio