Punctuation marks are the visitors alerts of language: they inform us to decelerate, discover this, take a detour, and cease.

Where would we be with out punctuation? If we didn’t have any, the sentence

“Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off”

would go away you questioning. Instead the sentence ought to learn:

Charles the First walked and talked half an hour. After, his head was minimize off”.

The phrase punctuation stems from Medieval Latin punctuatio ‘marking with points’ which refers back to the system of inserting pauses, particularly within the psalms of the Bible, in order that they could possibly be learn out clearly.

Punctuation developed dramatically when massive numbers of copies of the Bible began to be produced. In the Seventh-Eighth centuries Irish and Anglo-Saxon scribes added extra marks to make texts extra comprehensible.

Comma comes for the Greek komma, that means actually ‘piece which is cut off’ referring to the clause that’s remoted by use of the comma.

The exclamation mark, which we use to precise shock or a name for consideration, was as soon as often known as a shriek mark or a observe of admiration!

The dot on the finish of the sentence, which we name a full cease, is thought in USA as a interval.

Brackets, (which we use to separate a clause) comes from the Latin braca that means ‘breeches’. I suppose () seem like a pair of legs.

Here are a few of the well-known sentences that may be learn in a different way with punctuation:

“A woman without her man, is nothing.” OR

“A woman. Without her, man is nothing.”

“Let’s eat, Grandpa!” OR “Let’s eat Grandpa!”

And that previous favorite “The panda eats shoot and leaves” OR

“The panda eats, shoots, and leaves.”