Punctuation

 



Art of writing for business communication formal letters, E mails short message viz

we require to punctuate the sentences, inorder to form proper expression and mainly to the sentence construction rule, and form a good  paragraph.

capital letters

Krishna is the boy, you can see in first row, is a  toppper in class.

names of celebs important whos who

like President MLA MP words like

Telugu Cinema Bollywood first letter being proper nouns names is capitalised.

All sentences end with a period, question mark, exclamation point, or s

( . )
A sentence break or full stop is used for ending a sentence as expression is complete to begin new sentence.

He has just finished discuss throw.


QUESTION MARK?

Question marks are used to mark questions

The question mark is used to end a direct question. It always goes at the end of the sentence, inside the quotation marks if the sentence is a quotation.

Here are some examples:
Do you like ice cream?
she asked, “Do you like ice cream?”
Are you coming to the party tonight?
Mr chopra signs off the pact.
Comma ( , )  is used to have short pause
to seperate a compound sentence, to seperate two different clauses.
phrase noun phrase or relative clause.
its also used instead of conjunction and which might be used repeatedly.
The weather is slightly wet, The weather is dry for the rest of the day.
Its lovely weather today, isnt it? Let's go out shall we?

colon

: is used for listing items 

I purchased many things from market: vegetables, cerals,pulses, snacks, household things.

semi colon

;

is used instead of conjunction and divide clause or break a sentence

He refuse to accept  payment; He didnt have proper change with him.

I love taking coffee; idli, sambar; salad in the breakfast.

exclaimation

this is used after the interjection sentence for sudden expression of Joy or sorrow, anger or shock.

Wow! That's excellent!

Quotation Marks (' ) ("  " )

to enclose direct quotes of speaker

The teacher said " today we shall discuss the lesson paragraph writing".

parentheses' refers to round brackets

 ( ) and 'brackets' to square brackets [ ]. However, we are more and more used to hearing these referred to simply as 'round brackets.

example

The government's education report (April -2005) shows  the increased enrollment.

The em dash resembles a horizontal line (—) that is longer than both a hyphen (-) and an en dash (–).
usually in place of conjunction, colon to divide the phrase or cluase and two sunbject clauses, within a sentence.


Add an apostrophe and an "s" to make a singular noun possessive. For example, "Long's theory 

Exclaimation marks   !

You were amazing!

He is not doing it right!

You did a really good job!

Wow! I really cannot believe we did that!

My God! Those are some wonderfully great decorations.



Ellipsis ( . . .)
Elipsis is a punctuation mark with three dots its a powerful tool  for writing ...
this is for indicating pause between extensive paragraph with breaks the flow of information  to start new line.

The ellipsis is placed between brackets when used within a quote [. . .] to show that the editors added the ellipsis, not the original speaker. 





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