(Philip Shenon, "Senate Approves Intelligence Bill." The New York Times, December 9, 2004) Specter said, cataloging the intelligence failures investigated by the Sept. "'Had there been proper coordination among the intelligence agencies, then 9 /11 might well have been prevented,' Mr. (Leah Hager Cohen, "Season of Grief." The New York Times, September 19, 2008) "In 15 spare lines, from opening query ('Margaret, are you grieving / Over Goldengrove unleaving?') to final couplet, Hopkins covers a vast amount of ground." I've often wondered what Robert Frost meant by repeating the last two lines of 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening': 'And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep.'" (Dawn Rodrigues and Myron Truman, A Norton Pocket Guide to Grammar and Punctuation. Be sure to put a space before and after the slash. "A slash is also used to indicate lines of poetry when they are not indented but are run into the text. (Geraldine Woods, Webster's New World Punctuation: Simplified and Applied. To be perfectly safe, avoid the slash and substitute alternatives, such as or and similar words." "Though the slash appears more and more frequently these days, traditional grammarians do not consider the preceding sentences appropriate for formal writing.
Ellen will travel to the conference by air/rail. Every student is expected to bring his/her gym suit to class. Please help yourself to milk and/or cookies from the refreshment table. Working as a kind of shorthand, the slash helps the hurried writer to jot down sentences such as these: "The primary function of the slash is to substitute for the word or. "This calculator-converter provides online conversion of miles per hour to km /hour (mph to km /h) and conversion km /h to mi /h (kilometers /hour to miles /hour).".Cappon, The Associated Press Guide to Punctuation. "he slash is a punctuation mark that sprouts in legal and commercial jargon ('and /or') and should not be used outside those linguistic ghettos.".
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