punctuation

The Punctuation Rules

Technological University of Tecamachalco ANDREA JUAREZ TORAL Teacher: Dolores Vega Espinoza  Accountancy 16/ JUNIO/ 2021

The most common use of the period is at the end of a sentence, when we have finished presenting a complete idea.    

There are people for whom eating is like a breath, since it acts as a pause in the sentence.

Use commans to separate independent clauses (complete thoughts) when they are joined by the following  conjunctions. EXAMPLE: I wan to buy the new jacket but it is too expensive. I wan to buy the new jacket, but it is too expensive.

Use a commans to separate a dependet clause ( incomplete thought) from a independent clause (complete thought). EXAMPLE: Without water the plant will die. Without water , the plant will die.

Use a comman(S) to separate any word or phrase from the rest of the sentence that is not essential to the sentence´s meaning.  EXAMPLE:  My mother, on the other hand, does not like chocolate.

Use a comman to separate a quotation from the rest of a sentence. EXAMPLE: "We need to buy more suggar" she said "before it runs out!"  "We need to buy more suggar", she said, "before it runs out!" 

Use a comman to separate an introductory element from the rest of a sentence. EXAMPLE: Hi how are you? Hi, how are you?

Use a comman to separate the name of a city from a country or state. EXAMPLE: I live in Chapel Hill North Carolina. I live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Use a comman to separate the day  of the week, the day of the month, and the year. EMAPLE: Today is Thursday April 18 1943. Today is Thursday, April 18, 1943.

The semicolon is like the big brother of the comma. You can use it when you want to join two separate (independent) sentences that are related to each other, but between which no conjunction has been used.

EXAMPLE: My brother, my mother, my sister, my pets live in my house.

The semicolon is sometimes described as stronger than a comma but weaker than a period. In certain uses, this is a reasonably accurate definition. Yet there is more to the semicolon than that.

EXAMPLE: CORRECT FORM: The cow is brown, it is also old. The upperclassmen are permitted off-campus lunch, but the underclassmen must remain on campus.

To combine  two closely related complete sentences (independent cluses) which are not joined by a conjunction. To separate items in a list when commans alone would be confusing.