In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise discuss how to use exclamation marks, and why more than one is too many.
Listen to find out more about:
- What exclamation marks look like
- Functions: Surprise, emphasis, volume
- How many to use
- Social media use
- Reasons to omit them: web, business academic copy
- Balancing use and abuse
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I will, but I don’t think I even have to read your whole blog. I have always been an over-user of exclamation marks so now I am so conscious of when they might be appropriate. I got bagged real bad once during a critique!
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Glad you found the article useful Christine 😃
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