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    Punctuation includes symbols like periods, commas, question marks, etc. that are used to separate sentences and clarify meaning. An English teacher demonstrated the importance of punctuation by writing the phrase "woman without her man is nothing" on the board and having students punctuate it in different ways to change the meaning. The document provides an overview of common punctuation marks like periods, commas, semicolons, colons, hyphens, dashes, question marks and their purposes with examples.

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    Punctuation includes symbols like periods, commas, question marks, etc. that are used to separate sentences and clarify meaning. An English teacher demonstrated the importance of punctuation by writing the phrase "woman without her man is nothing" on the board and having students punctuate it in different ways to change the meaning. The document provides an overview of common punctuation marks like periods, commas, semicolons, colons, hyphens, dashes, question marks and their purposes with examples.

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    Punctuation includes symbols like periods, commas, question marks, etc. that are used to separate sentences and clarify meaning. An English teacher demonstrated the importance of punctuation by writing the phrase "woman without her man is nothing" on the board and having students punctuate it in different ways to change the meaning. The document provides an overview of common punctuation marks like periods, commas, semicolons, colons, hyphens, dashes, question marks and their purposes with examples.

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    Punctuation

    Punctuation is the system of symbols (. , ! - : etc) that we use to separate sentences and parts of
    sentences, and to make their meaning clear. Each symbol is called a "punctuation mark".

    The Value of Punctuation


    An English teacher wrote
    these words on the board:

    woman without her man is


    nothing

    The teacher then asked the


    students to punctuate the
    words correctly. The men
    wrote the top line. The
    women wrote the bottom line.

    Summary of Punctuation Marks


    Click on the link for each punctuation mark to find out more.

    Punctuation Mark Name Example

    full stop or
    period I like English.

    I speak English, French and


    comma Thai.

    I don't often go swimming; I


    semi-colon prefer to play tennis.
    You have two choices: finish the
    colon work today or lose the contract.

    hyphen This is a rather out-of-date book.

    In each town—London, Paris


    and Rome—we stayed in youth
    dash hostels.

    question mark Where is Shangri-La?


    exclamation
    mark
    exclamation "Help!" she cried. "I'm
    point (AmE) drowning!"

    slash, forward
    slash or Please press your browser's
    oblique Refresh/Reload button.

    backslash C:\Users\Files\jse.doc

    double
    quotation
    marks "I love you," she said.

    single
    quotation
    marks 'I love you,' she said.

    apostrophe This is John's car.


    underline Have you read War and Peace?

    underscore [email protected]

    I went to Bangkok (my favourite


    city) and stayed there for two
    round brackets weeks.

    The newspaper reported that the


    hostages [most of them French]
    square brackets had been released.

    One happy customer wrote:


    "This is the best program...that I
    ellipsis mark have ever seen."

    Taken from:

    http://www.englishclub.com/writing/punctuation.htm

    Grammar Exercise:

    http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_grammar.htm

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