punctuation
punc·tua·tion (puŋk′c̸ho̵̅o̅ ā′s̸hən)
noun
- the act of punctuating; specif., the act or practice of using standardized marks in writing and printing to separate sentences or sentence elements or to make the meaning clearer
- a system for using such marks
- such a mark or marks
Etymology: ML punctuatio: see punctuate
punctuation
n.
Marks of punctuation include: period, colon, semicolon, comma, question mark, exclamation point, parentheses, dash, brackets, apostrophe, hyphen, quotation marks, quote marks, brace, ellipsis dots, virgule, slash, asterisk.
Preposition: of
- abbreviation: Punctuation of common abbreviations should follow the following conventions: e.g. i.e. cf.
Converse of object
- omit: Some may have mocked her - by omitting punctuation.
- hang: With Hanging bullets With hanging punctuation the flow of text on the left hand side is uninterrupted.
- forget: Lastly, don't forget that punctuation can affect our meaning too.
- ignore: Interestingly they found that students seemed to ignore punctuation, spelling and grammar.
- correct: It had by then been revised, and the punctuation corrected.
- add: The perfect accessory adds the proper punctuation to an outfit.
Preposition: at
- end: Putting a piece of punctuation at the end of the sentence does not make it funny.
Adjective modifier
- correct: Many of his comments, however, revealed strange views on correct punctuation.
- proper: The perfect accessory adds the proper punctuation to an outfit.
- English: If you think you have trouble with English punctuation, this book proves that the English have the same problem.
- poor: Ive been away and I come back to Christopher falling foul of my poor punctuation.
- bad: The text is liberally and appropriately illustrated with examples of good and bad punctuation, sometimes with hilarious results.
- basic: Go to bookshop Grammar and Punctuation for School £ 2.50 Handy reference book that lists the most useful basic punctuation and grammar rules.
Modifies a noun
- mark: You cannot use spaces or punctuation marks in field names.
- symbol: Each combination produces a different letter, digit or punctuation symbol.
- character: Separate each keyword with a space or punctuation character, for example, a comma.
- tag: Spacing may also vary around punctuation tags ( eg c PUN.
- error: His review, Bad Comma, is largely a rant about the punctuation errors he found.
- mistake: In all work importance is attached to clear, well structured work with a minimum of spelling, grammatical or punctuation mistakes.
I have horrible nightmares of Sir Almwroth Wright's limp sentences wandering through the arid desert of his mind looking for dropped punctuation marks.
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
The ZeroTolerance Approach to Punctuation.
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