noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
punctuation mark
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mark
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Rather it was a fiery punctuation mark , a coal-like comma, or salamander semicolon, in a continuing story.
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Hyphens Hyphens, perhaps the most creative punctuation marks , join two or more words to create a single word.
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The recognition system was also extended to allow punctuation marks , digits and other non-alphabetic characters in certain situations.
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Baghdad's Babil daily put the punctuation marks above published excerpts from a U.S.
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He snorted quietly: an unemotional noise; a punctuation mark .
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Most people make mistakes, especially with punctuation marks .
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Each punctuation mark is put into a flashing mode, and another graphic character replaces each word.
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In addition, the program tallies the number of punctuation marks and calculates the average space between them.
■ VERB
use
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Moreover, written sentences can use punctuation as a way of indicating structure, and so can more easily manage complex constructions.
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The drafter must therefore take care to use punctuation clearly and accurately.
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We never write words without using punctuation to form them into well-defined sentences.
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But decisions about exactly when to use each type of punctuation vary from writer to writer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Active verbs, numerical values, abbreviations and punctuation are to be avoided.
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Baghdad's Babil daily put the punctuation marks above published excerpts from a U.S.
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Checking for punctuation and small mistakes cutting the pieces.
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Credit will be given for the appropriate use of complex sentences, punctuation and vocabulary, and for grammatical accuracy.
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Reading is much more than letter-by-letter decoding; writing is much more than spelling and punctuation .
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She made four mistakes in grammar, capitalization and punctuation .
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The most obvious difference between quotation and paraphrase in these examples is the punctuation which separates a quotation from the surrounding material.
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The recognition system was also extended to allow punctuation marks, digits and other non-alphabetic characters in certain situations.