Punctuation
PUNCTUATION MARKS AND CAPITAL LETTERS INTRODUCTION If we go on speaking without any pauses, our speech would become meaningless a group of jumbled words. So in order to make the sense of our conversation clear, we have pauses in our speech. similarly punctuation marks are used for making the sense of a writing clear by separating different parts and stopping at certain points. The correct use of such marks is quite necessary because an un-punctuated or wrongly punctuated writing is likely to alter the meanings, as a general rule, as far as possible, the sentences should be short so that the fewest possible marks may he used. The chief marks of punctuation are as follows : 1. The full-stop or the Period (.) 2. The question Mark (?) 3. The Exclamation Mark (!) 4. The Comma (,) 5. The Semi-Colon (;) 6. The Colon (:) 7. The Dash (— ) 8. The Hyphen (-) 9. The Inverted Commas or the Quotation Marks (" ") 10. The Quotation Marks (' ') 11. ...