Punctuation
[pʌŋ(k)tʃʊ'eɪʃ(ə)n;-tjʊ-] or ['pʌŋktʃʊ'eʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases.
(noun.) the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases.
(noun.) something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions.
Typist: Lottie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.
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Examples
- They borrowed the idea--and the words--and the construction--and the punctuation--from Grimes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If our young friend studied punctuation, it would be well. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The curved bacilli are called _comma_ _bacilli_, from their resemblance to the punctuation mark of that name. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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