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    This document discusses English punctuation and provides examples of its use. It outlines 14 common punctuation marks - the period, comma, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, apostrophe, hyphen, dash, quotation marks, parentheses, brackets, and ellipses. It then provides two short passages utilizing several punctuation marks to demonstrate their use in written English.

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    GRAMMAR POINT 18.

    English Punctuation
    I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. Introduction Period ( . ) Comma ( , ) Semi colon ( ; ) Colon ( : ) Question mark ( ? ) Exclamation mark ( ! ) Apostrophe ( ' ) Hyphen ( - ) Dash ( ) Quotation mark ( . ) Parentheses ( ( ) ) Brackets ( [ ] ) Ellipses ( )

    Bengali Script India developed a number of different writing systems over the course of its history. Bengali, which developed toward the end of the 14th century, belongs to the Indo-Aryan language group. But its writing system is used not only for Bengali, Assamese, and other Indian languages in that group, but also for writing several languages in the Tibeto-Burman language subfamily. The photograph shows a page with letters of the Bengali alphabet and their pronunciations in Roman letters.

    I. Introduction

    Punctuation, in written language , the use of standard marks to clarify meaning. Punctuation marks are also used to help convey the emphases and breathing pauses natural to speech, to indicate sentence structure, and to enhance readability. Punctuation varies from language to language and preferences for specific marks vary from writer to writer, but, within any given text, consistency is stylistically favored. The contemporary trend is toward a minimum of punctuation, with clarity as the main criterion for use. The most common punctuation marks of modern English usage are the following.

    ROMEO. She speaks. O, speak again, bright angel!for thou art As glorious to this night, being oer my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him When he bestrides the lazy, puffing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air. JULIET.

    O Romeo, Romeo!wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And Ill no longer be a Capulet.

    I. Period ( . )
    Most sentences en d with a period, which signals a strong pause. The mark is also used in decimals and after abbreviations that do not contain apostrophes.
    PRACTICE: Put the periods where necessary Marriage and Family in Vietnam but now people choose their own partner . On average, men marry at age 25 and women around age 23 . The government is trying to reduce population growth through family-planning policies, which include providing incentives for later marriages and smaller families . Family members maintain strong ties and provide one another with assistance and support as needed . In rural areas it is normal for the extended family to share the same home, while in urban areas it has become more common for only the nuclear family to live together . The average household has six members . Traditionally, marriages were arranged by parents,

    GRAMMAR POINT 18. English Punctuation

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