Paul Allardyce

Stops; Or, How to Punctuate (Dodo Press) Paul Allardyce

George Paul Macdonell, who wrote under the pseudonym Paul Allardyce was the author of "Stops"; or, How to Punctuate (1884). "The Use of Punctuation. -Punctuation is a device for marking out the arrangement of a writer's ideas. Reading is thereby made easier than it otherwise would be. A writer's ideas are expressed by a number of words arranged in groups, the words in one group being more closely connected with one another than they are with those in the next group. "