Punctuation marks in the compound sentence
The independent clauses of a compound sentence joined asyndetically are divided by a comma to denote a brief pause, falling tone, and often enumeration of closely connected actions. The copulative…
The independent clauses of a compound sentence joined asyndetically are divided by a comma to denote a brief pause, falling tone, and often enumeration of closely connected actions. The copulative…
An interjection is usually followed by an exclamation mark to denote great emotion: pain, anger, astonishment, acute distress, joy or delight; or several of these feelings combined. In case of…
An object, being closely connected with the predicate of the sentence (or with some verbal), is not set off by any punctuation mark: "He was doing a lot of harm".…
Punctuation at the end of the sentence At the end of a declarative sentence — one-member or two-member — a full-stop (a period or a dot) is placed to denote…
The study of modern punctuation is not possible without the knowledge of its origin, evolution, features of the development in languages. The high level of modern philological research, studying the…
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