目录
PartOnePunctuation.
IEndpunctuationmarks
1Period(.)
1)Asend-upsignal
2)Asomissionsignal
3)Asdecimalmarker
4)Asseparator
2Questionmark(?)
1)Usedaftereverydirectquestion,includingashortwithin-sentenceparentheticalquestion
2)Usedwithinparenthesestoexpressthewriter'suncertaintyaboutthecorrectnessofsomefacts
3Exclamationpoint(!)
IIInternalpunctuationmarks
1Comma(,)
1)Asintroducer
2)Ascoordinator
3)Asinserter
4)Aslinker
5)Asseparator
6)Asindicator
2Semicolon(;)
t)Betweentwosentencesthatarecloselyconnectedinidea,orindependentclauseswhentheyarenotjoinedbythecoordinatingconjunctionsand,but,for,orandnor
2)Beforesentenceconnectorsandsometransitionalphrases(connectorslikehowever,therefore,nevertheless,moreover,furthermore,etc.;transitionalphraseslikeforexample,asaresult,thatis,infact,etc.)
3)Betweenitemsinaserieswhenanyoftheitemslistedalreadycontainscommas,orwhentheclause-itemsarelongivEnglishWritingMechanics:Writer'sHandbook
3Colon(:)
1)Tointroducealistofappositives,oralistofanyotherkindthatisintroducedbysuchwordsasthefollowingorasfollows
2)Tointroduceformallyadirectquotation
3)Toconnecttwoindependentclauseswhenthesecondclauseenlargesonorexplainsthefirst
4)Toseparatethemaintitleandsubtitleofabook,anarticleoraplay
5)Toseparatethehoursandminutes
6)Tofollowthesalutationofaformalletterortheintroductoryremarkofaspeakertothechairmanandaudience
4Dash(——)
1)Usedtoemphasize
2)Usedtomarkasuddenbreakinthought,aninterruption,oranabruptchangeintone
3)Usedtosetoffaseriesofappositives
4)Usedtoseparateasummarizingclausefromaseriesofitems
5)Usedtosetoffaparentheticalelementthatisveryabruptorthathascommaswithinit
6)Usedtoindicatetheomissionoflettersorwords
5Virgule(/)
1)Usedtoindicatealternatives
2)Usedtoindicateanabbreviatedform
3)Usedtorepresentperinabbreviationsofratesandrations
4)Usedtoseparatedivisionsofaperiodoftime
5)Usedtoseparaterun-inlinesofpoetry
IIIEnclosingmarks
1Quotationmarks()('')
1)Threebasicfunctionsofquotationmarks
2)Rulesforpunctuationassociatedwithquotationmarks
3)BritishstylecomparedwithAmericanstyle
2Parentheses(())
1)Functionsofparentheses
2)Mechanicsinwritingtheparentheticalinformation
3Brackets([])
1)Toinsertcommentsorexplanations,andsuppliedomissionsaddedto
aquotationbythepersonquoting
2)ToenclosetheLatinwordsic(so/thus)toindicatestrangeusageoranerrorsuchasmisspellingorincorrectgrammarinaquotation
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PartTwoCapitalizaton
PartThreeNumhbersandAbbreviatons
PartFourIyalics
PartFiveHyphensandSyllabificaton
PartSixDocumentation
PartsevenCommonSentenceProblems
AbbreviatonsofAmericanStateNames
RomanNumerals
CorrectionSymbols
Bibliogyrphy