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Punctuation marks are used in written communication to create clarity and structure. The main punctuation marks include periods, commas, colons, semicolons, hyphens, dashes, parentheses, carets, and apostrophes. Each mark serves a distinct purpose such as indicating a pause, listing items, quoting text, or showing possession. Capital letters are also important for punctuation as they are used to begin sentences and proper nouns or titles. Punctuation aims to aid understanding and proper reading of written text.

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Punctuation S

Punctuation marks are used in written communication to create clarity and structure. The main punctuation marks include periods, commas, colons, semicolons, hyphens, dashes, parentheses, carets, and apostrophes. Each mark serves a distinct purpose such as indicating a pause, listing items, quoting text, or showing possession. Capital letters are also important for punctuation as they are used to begin sentences and proper nouns or titles. Punctuation aims to aid understanding and proper reading of written text.

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Punctuations

PROF. TAHIR ASHFAQ LECTURE-10


Punctuations
Oral Communication
Business Correspondence Open & Close Punctuations
Written Communication
Pauses
Marks
Punctuations
the use of spacing , conventional signs and
certain typographical devices as aids to the
understanding and correct reading of written
text, whether read silently or aloud.
Purpose

Punctuations are used to create sense , clarity


and stress in sentences
Pauses
Full Stop (.)

Comma (,)

Semi-colon ( ; )

Colon (:)
Pauses

Hyphen (-)
Dash (_)
Parenthesis ( )
Caret (^ )
Apostrophe ( ‘ )
Pauses
Full Colon Semi Comma
stop Colon
. > : > ; > ,
Longest Exp. Deals Shortest
Pause Sign With Pause
Inter dept.
Sentences
Full stop ( . )

Fortune favours the bold.


Whom do you want to see?
How well she sings!
Colon ( : )
►To explain sth.
I bought stationery: pen, pencil and eraser.
►To define sth. Economics:
►To quote sth.
Shakespeare claims: Nothing is good or bad or thinking makes it so.
►To example sth.
I bought stationery: pen, pencil and eraser.
Semi-Colon ( ; )
He does not go out much; it is clear that he likes to stay at home.

Speech is silver but Silence is gold.

Speech is silver : Silence is gold.


Comma ( , )
Comma deals with list of words
Today’s morning is chilly , windy and foggy.
To mark a Pause
Quaid-e-Azam, the founder of Pakistan, changed the
cartography of the world.
Hyphen ( - )
To make Compound/Hyphenated Words
Father-in –Law Co-operation
For short Spacing
beau-ti-ful
Beauti-ful
Dash ( ---- )
To relate Previous References
Man and Woman, Old and Young, Boy and Girl----all fought
for freedom.
Before and After the Explanatory Phrase
There will be time---a blessed time---when Kashmir be the
part of Pakistan.
Parenthesis ( )
WTO( World Trade Organization) is offering relief Packages
for the third World Countries.

Parenthesis never harms the grammatical structure of a


sentence rather it is meant for additional meaning.
Caret ( ^ )
Something missing which is given above

that
University is a place ^ decides the destiny of people.
Apostrophe ( ‘ )
• To show possession

• boy’s pen instead of Pen of boy


• Boys’ College
Officers’ Academy
Men’s Store
Children’s World
Waqas’s House Abbas's House Keats’s Sensuousness
Apostrophe ( ‘ )
In Contractions

doesn’t don’t won’t


Marks
Interrogative Mark ( ? )
What brought you here?
Exclamatory Mark ( ! )
What an idea !
Quotation Mark ( “ “ )
He said , “ Honesty pays in the long run.”
Capital Letters
►Used to begin a sentence
►Wisdom rules the world.
► for proper nouns Ahmad, Monday, Jinnah Library
►For important words not all the words in titles of books, films
► Around the World in Eighty Days.
►Used for ranks, titles and names of institutions
►The Chief Inspector of Schools.
Difference

►Initials: PAC, ICAP, WTO, ISO, NPT,CTBT


►Abbreviations: Prof. Jan. Feb. Mr. Dr.
►Contractions: don’t , doesn’t ,didn’t
Summary
Capital Letters
Full stop , Comma , Colon
Apostrophe
Quotation Mark
Exclamatory Mark
Interrogative Mark
Practice Exercise
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Practice Exercises
Work-book
Online Links

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