2.4. Exclamations

panic

Use exclamation points very rarely.
1. Use it only after an exclamation.
  "Stop, you vandals! You home wreckers!" bawled Arthur. "You half crazed Visigoths, stop will you!"
  1. Putting an exclamation point after a regular sentence is a lazy way of trying to make it more exciting, and it doesn’t work.
    This is a very boring sentence, even with an exclamation point after it!
  2. _☠Use only one exclamation point at a time.

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Use exclamation points very rarely.

Use it only after an exclamation.

Putting an exclamation point after a regular sentence is a lazy way of trying to make it more exciting, and it doesn’t work.

☠Use only one exclamation point at a time.

_☠Use only one exclamation point at a time.