In general, put no spaces before
punctuation, but put a space between words.
Exceptions.
Put two spaces
after colons and between sentences.
Put no spaces after periods inside
abbreviations.
Put no space before or after an
apostrophe.
Put no space on the "inside" of
quotation marks (often called "quotes").
Put no space on the "inside" of
parentheses.
In general, put end-of-sentence
punctuation inside quotation marks.
Note: Direct quotations are not used
as much in English as in Japanese.
In general, put commas and other sentence
punctuation outside of parentheses.
Put a comma (plus a space) before and,
but, or, and nor when they join two sentences.
In general, if you use an
adjective-plus-noun (or adverb-adjective) phrase to modify another noun
the adjective and noun should be joined with a hyphen.
Names of newspapers, books, movies,
ships, magazines, journals, and poems are usually italicized or
underlined.
Ellipsis (...) is used to show that
something has been omitted.
For quotes within quotes, use single quotes.
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