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B1(the use of)specialsymbolsthat youaddto writing toseparatephrasesandsentencesto show that something is aquestion, etc.: 标点符号；标点符号用法 Hisletterwascompletelywithout punctuation.他的信里一个标点也没有。 - You'll bemarkeddown forpoorspellingand punctuation.
- He had written theletterinappallinghandwritingwithalmostno punctuation.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesPunctuation - abbreviated
- accent
- apostrophe
- at sign
- block capitals
- caron
- cedilla
- comma
- dash
- diacritical
- double prime
- question mark
- round brackets
- semicolon
- small cap
- small capitals
- solidus
- square brackets
- stroke
- unbracketed
See more results » GrammarPunctuation The most common punctuation marks in English are: capital letters and full stops, question marks, commas, colons and semi-colons, exclamation marks and quotation marks.… Punctuation: capital letters (B, D) and full stops (.) We use capital letters to mark the beginning of a sentence and we use full stops to mark the end of a sentence:… Punctuation: question marks (?) and exclamation marks (!) We use question marks to make clear that what is said is a question. When we use a question mark, we do not use a full stop:… Punctuation: commas (,) We use commas to separate a list of similar words or phrases:… Punctuation: colons (:) and semi-colons (;) We use colons to introduce lists:… Punctuation: quotation marks (‘…’ or “…”) Quotation marks in English are ‘…’ or “…”. In direct speech, we enclose what is said within a pair of single or double quotation marks, although single quotation marks are becoming more common. Direct speech begins with a capital letter and can be preceded by a comma or a colon:… Punctuation: dashes ( – ) and other punctuation marks Dashes are more common in informal writing. They can be used in similar ways to commas or semi-colons. Both single and multiple dashes may be used:… Punctuation: numerals and punctuation In British English the date is usually given in the order day, month, year.… Saying email and internet addresses When we speak email and web addresses, we say each word separately. To avoid confusion, we sometimes spell out each letter of a word:… Symbols and typographic conventions .… punctuation| American Dictionaryspecialmarksthat areplacedin atextto show thedivisionsbetweenphrasesandsentences, or the use of thesemarks: Checkyourspellingand punctuation. Examplesofpunctuationpunctuation Like the spelling, thepunctuationof the received text belongs to the eighteenth century and often appears heavy to modern taste.From theCambridge English Corpus The extracts preserve the spelling andpunctuationof the originals.From theCambridge English Corpus In order to make these graphs projective, thepunctuationtokens were attached to the immediately following word.From theCambridge English Corpus A handful of minor typographical errors have crept in (mostlypunctuation), and the odd table is poorly labelled.From theCambridge English Corpus The work contains many spelling,punctuation, typographical, and referencing errors.From theCambridge English Corpus Punctuationthat is not part of the quoted material should be outside closing quotation marks, as should footnote indicators.From theCambridge English Corpus Note indicators in the text should followpunctuation.From theCambridge English Corpus For a programming language these word-like pieces would include keywords, identifiers, literals andpunctuation.From theCambridge English Corpus These transcriptions have hadpunctuationinserted by annotators, to delimit interjections and false starts.From theCambridge English Corpus Special symbols for unknowns and numbers, as well aspunctuationmarks are left intact.From theCambridge English Corpus Punctuationin a sense corresponds to linguistic and paralinguistic features of spoken language such as gestures, voice intensity, pitch, and intonation.From theCambridge English Corpus This contrasted with other stimuli, which appeared in lower case with nopunctuation.From theCambridge English Corpus This kind of unanalyzed element is relatively frequent and corresponds topunctuationmarks, unknown words or portions not covered by the partial grammar.From theCambridge English Corpus The secondpunctuationtradition, known alternatively as 'logical' or 'grammatical', began taking hold sometime in the seventeenth century.From theCambridge English Corpus We also fragment selectedpunctuationinto separate auxiliary trees.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |