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The document provides an overview of punctuation, emphasizing its importance in preventing miscommunication. It covers various punctuation marks, including periods and question marks, detailing their specific uses with examples. Additionally, it includes a lecture assessment and an assignment for students to punctuate a file and submit it via email.

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Lecture-04 Punctuation

The document provides an overview of punctuation, emphasizing its importance in preventing miscommunication. It covers various punctuation marks, including periods and question marks, detailing their specific uses with examples. Additionally, it includes a lecture assessment and an assignment for students to punctuate a file and submit it via email.

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Shinwari Introduction to Punctuation
Punctuation

Is the art of Writing-Signs placement for a better, easy-picked,


right and impressing text or message.

The biggest and significant importance of punctuation is that it


prevents Miscommunication or Misunderstanding.
Punctuation Marks

Period Exclamation Mark

Question Mark Quotations

Comma Colons & Semi Colons

Parenthesis & Brackets


Period & Question Mark

Period

Question Mark
Period

Period is used at the end of a sentence when the sentence is


a statement.

Example:
Academic English enhances your skills at academic
settings.
I understand that the students are studying really well.
Period

Use a period after most acronyms.


Examples:

a.m. p.m. e.g.


Period

Use a period after an initial.


Example:

John F. Kennedy
John W. Smith
Period

If a sentence concludes with an acronyms that ends with a


period, a second period should NOT be used.

Example:
This matter will now be referred to the I.R.S.
Did you complete the class at 6: 00 p.m.?
Period

Acronyms usually made up of the first letter from a series of words


which we pronounce as words, not a series of letters) usually do not
require periods:
Example:

NATO, NOW, VISTA, LASER, SCUBA, RADAR.


Acronyms we pronounce by spelling out the letters may or may not use
periods and you will have to use a dictionary to be sure: FBI, NAACP,
NCAA, U.S.A., etc.
Period

Use a period after each Roman numeral, letter, or number in an


outline.

Example:
A.
B.
2.
4.
Period

Use a period to separate dollars and cents.

Example:
The book cost $4.95.
Question Mark

Question mark is an end mark punctuation used when we ask a


question or query.

We will study question mark in the following points:

Direct Question
Indirect Question
Intonation Question
Polite Requests
Rhetorical question
Direct Question

A question mark is used after a direct question. A direct question is


one that is quoted word for word or is addressed directly to the reader.

Examples:

Has anybody seen Kelly?


Whom would you like to invite for dinner?
Can you find your way by yourself?
Do you know where I live?
Rhetorical Question

Rhetorical Question a question asked in order to create a


dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

Example:
In the war against Russians, could you talk to the soldiers? Were
there any restrictions? So you have to think about all these
things.
Intonation Question

Intonation Question is one that we use our intonation or


voice to make a direct question from a declarative sentence.

Example:
There is a bird in the garden.
There is a bird in the garden?
Indirect Question

A question that is not quoted verbatim or is not directly


addressed to the reader. They are used as the subordinate
elements of a sentence. No question mark used.

Examples:
They asked me whether I could help their son find a job.
The detective asked me about where I was on the night of the
crime.
Request

A question mark is not used when asking someone to do something or to


make requests. We do not use the question mark when we are merely
making a request or when we expect no answer because in request the
people are requested to comply rather than reply.
Examples of requests in question form:

Would you please send us a duplicate copy of that invoice.


Will you please read the transcript back to me.
Can I please look at that book.
Some More Points

In very informal writing (personal letter or email), people


sometimes use a question mark to turn a statement into a
question.
Example:
See you at 9pm?
In the same situations, they may use two or three question marks
together to show that they are not sure about something:
I think you said it would cost $10???
Lecture Assessment

What did you learn from today’s lecture?


I learned…
I learned…
I learned…
I learned…
I learned…
I learned…
Assignment

The assigned file should be punctuated within the given deadline,


and send it back to the trainer via email.

The trainer has to give his official email to the students.


Any Question

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