ENGLISH PUNCTUATION презентация

1. Using brackets inside parenthetical comments:

[ ]

2. Using brackets to insert information into a quotation:

Miss Lee reports that “The other day a child in the reception class [kindergarten] in Myatt Gardens told me a story about September 11.”

1. Using slashed in paired terms:

/

2. Using slashes with dates and fractions :

10/31/2009 - October 31, 2009
1/2 15/16

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“Goya’s Last Works,” at the Frick, isn’t large.

- the titles;

“The Making of Americans” was a work that Stein evidently had to get out of her system.

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And by “malignant” and “addictive” I do not mean evil or hypnotizing.

With computers, italics can replace quotation marks.

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As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition of “free culture” - not “free” as in “free beer” (to borrow a phrase from the founder of the free software movement), but “free” as in “free speech”, “free markets”, “free trade”, “free enterprise”, “free will”, and “free election.”

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David Foster Wallace believes that “fiction writers as a species tend to be ogles.”

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The woman asked me, “Would you be interested in full-time elf or evening and weekend elf?”

6. Using quotation marks to show irony:

To quantify the “”benefit” side of the equation, a dollar amount is assigned to each saved human’s life.

2. Using apostrophes to make possessives:

Discovery Channel’s news reality television show is Last One Standing.

Remember the difference between it’s and its:

It’s = it is
Its = the possessive form of the pronoun it

1. Using periods with some abbreviations:

John F. Kennedy
W. J. Mitchell a.m./am = ante meridiem

If an abbreviation is of names, put a space after each period. If an abbreviation is of other words, do not put spaces after the periods.

The basic genre that World of Warcraft belongs to is called the massively multiplayer online game, or M.M.O.

Remember! If a sentence ends with an abbreviation, do not put another period at the end of the sentence:

Water buffalo do not exist in Africa.

Remember! If you put a complete sentence inside parentheses, end the sentence with a period inside the parentheses:

Remember! If parentheses contain less than a complete sentence, do not give them any end punctuation:

The toxins are mostly made up of 5-nucleotidase and phosphodiesterase, which are cytotoxins (which kill cells and tissue) and result in local necrosis (tissue death).

1. Using question marks to the end sentences that are questions:

2. Using question marks to show doubt about dates and numbers:

Tin this photograph, Reynolds is seen with his mother in 1928 (?).

But! Don’t use question marks in indirect questions:

What is education?

Using exclamation points to indicate to readers that a sentence carries emotional weight:

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