Which name goes with which punctuation mark?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 445.

Read and translate the following text.

PUNCTUATION

Write the following addresses in the correct order.

a. Mr. George James, Managing Director, Alan and Lames Ltd, Quality House, 77-

81 London Road, Bristol, BL5 9AR, Great Britain

b. Ms Alison Freeman, Marketing Co-ordinator, United Packaging Inc., 11 East

Shore Drive, Green Bay, Wisconsin, WI 53678, USA.

c. Mr. R.G. Filnders, Sales manager, Independent Products Pty, 18 Canberra Way,

Liverpool NSW 2170, Australia

Punctuation is used to clarify the sense of what is written, and since the development of the printed book, we have become familiar with a series of punctuation conventions. These include not only the standard punctuation marks (, . ; : ? !), but conventions such as word spacing, capital letters at the beginning of sentences, paragraphing and page formatting. These are particularly necessary because English is a sloppy language, susceptible to misinterpretation without it. We also read very fast and silently, and the division of the text through graphic conventions allows us to absorb large chunks of text.

, ! " " / ( ) ? ' ; : . - --- ‘ ‘

1. comma 6. hyphen 10. colon

2. stroke / oblique / slash 7. dash 11. question mark

3. brackets /parentheses 8. exclamation mark 12. single quotes

4. semi-colon 9. full stop/period/dot

5. double quotes / quotation marks / inverted commas 13. apostrophe

Businesspeople generally accept the standards for correct usage of grammar,

spelling and punctuation. They expect you to follow them. The standards of

correctness have one basic purpose: to assist in communication. The standards are

designed to reduce misunderstanding – to make communication more precise. The

practical value of these standards can easily be illustrated. Study the following

sentences. Their words are the same; their punctuation differs.