A Guide To Learn English Language

Punc­tu­a­tion is not a kind of code, but is there to make what you write clear, easy to under­stand and read. We should only use it as far as we need it in our writ­ing as part of the process of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the peo­ple. It is use­ful and it is impor­tant and it should be accu­rate oth­er­wise the mean­ing that we thought to con­vey may change. Punc­tu­a­tion is impor­tant for clear and easy under­stand­ing. Pro­vid­ing all infor­ma­tion required but improper punc­tu­a­tion makes it very hard to read and under­stand. Punc­tu­a­tion includes cor­rect usage of com­mas, semi­colons, full stops etc. By writ­ing punc­tu­ally cor­rect, we can have the fol­low­ing benefits:

1. Punc­tu­a­tion marks like full stops, com­mas and semi­colons form the basic struc­ture of a para­graph and delin­eate the sen­tences and give a sense to that paragraph.
2. Dashes and brack­ets can show groups of words that form a smaller group within a sentence.
3. Ques­tion marks, excla­ma­tion marks and quo­ta­tion marks show what we writ­ing to express some­thing other than gen­eral meaning.
4. The apos­tro­phe and hyphen can link related words and show other spe­cial functions.
5. Full stops show that the sen­tence or para­graph has ended and show that a group of let­ters forms an abbreviation.

Punc­tu­a­tion marks

Punc­tu­a­tion works at two lev­els i.e. at sen­tence level or phrase level and mark­ing its struc­ture and at word level, link­ing or sep­a­rat­ing the words that are sep­a­rate and are mean­ing­less unless con­nected with other words.

Punc­tu­a­tion has two roles to sep­a­rate sen­tences or sep­a­rate parts of sen­tences and to link groups of words into one sentence.