文档介绍：Punctuation
Stanley
20100503
Periods (AmE)/full stops(BrE)(.)
,请求,温和的命令
Eg:His name is David.
Eg: Please be sure to tell her e.
Eg :He is my Chinese teacher.
Mr./Mrs. Jan. .
Question marks(?)
,包括用作问句的不完全问题句或陈述。
Do you speak English?
Really?When?No Kidding?
Your name is Fred?
,但仍然使用句号。
Chaucer was born in 1343(?).
Commas(,)
,短语,从句
The colors you find in his pictures are red,white,blue and green.
,顺序是月天,年
On July 4,1776====On 4 July 1776
,当从句以so,but,and,or连接时。
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.(shakespeare)
,主句在前,用逗号隔开,从句在后。
If you do not think about future,you cannot have one.
,whom,whose,which非限制性定句.
The house, which is very old, sells for $300,000
,副词后。
In a few situations, Molly municate very well.
。
Her eyes, big and bright, are filled with tears.
。
Semicolons(;)
。
We kill time; time buries us.
,主句之间有连接词的,在连接词前加分号。
It was a chilly,rainy,windy day,a day to make you wish you had stayed home in front of a cozy fire; but the soldiers were tramping through the woods, searching for the escaped men.
,成分内部用逗号。
,主句和副词之间用分号
mittee has found you the most qualified of all the applicants;therefore,we are offering you the position.
Quotation marks(“”/’’)
,诗歌,短篇故事,文章,长诗中的章节,绘画,雕塑作品,文学作品的名字
,一般表示诋毁和讽刺
You are indeed my “friend” who runs me down at my back.(ironic)
,冒号和分号放在分号外面。
引言中的问号和破折号要放在引号内。非引言中的问号和破折号放在引号外
He shouted , “Help!”
Do not shout “help”!
The boy asked, “When does the zoo close?”
Did the boy ask “When does the zoo close”?
Capitalization
Stanley
20100503
,特别的人物,地点,事物,历史事件,文件,法律。
A well-known attraction in San Francisco is the Golden Gate Bridge.
Among the European countries,France,Germany and Russia were strongly against American`s invasion of Iraq.