Punctuation 标点符号
6. 分号表示短暂而明确的停顿，连接两个内容 相关但语法逻辑上完整的独立分句。分句之 间不用连词，分号就相当于逗号与连接词的 组合。如： The project was finally completed; we were very pleased.(我们很高兴我们终于完成了计 划 。 ) 相 当 于 The project was finally completed，and we were very pleased.
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逗号误用：I set out for the biggest bookstore in town, at the school gate I saw a girl of my class, she was going there, too, we decided to go together, we walked, the bookstore was not far away. 正确的句子：I set out for the biggest bookstore in town. I At the school gate I saw a girl of my class. She was going there, too. We decided to go together. We walked. The bookstore was not far away. (我开始去城里最大的书店。 在学校门口我看见了班里 的一个女孩, 她也要去那儿, 我们决定一起去。我们 走着,书店就在不远处。 )

冒号的用法
1. The year is divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.(一年分为四季：春、夏、秋、 冬。) 2. My grandpa often mentions one saying by Confucius: “To say you know when you know, and to say you do not when you do not, that is knowledge.” 3. The train leaves at 10:45 a.m. China beat Japan 3:2 in the women’s volleyball game. Dear Mr. Brown: Ladies and gentlemen:
引号的用法
冒号和分号放在引号之外： First he talked about "New Criticism"; then he discussed "postmodernism." The dictionary gives a brief explanation of "postmodernism": a style of building, decoration, art, etc., which uses an unusual mixing of old and new forms.
引号的用法
1）文章、短篇故事、短诗及歌曲等的题目和书 中各章节的题目，应用引号标出。但书刊名 称应用斜体字或字下线标明。 The People's Daily carries an important article today: "The Present Situation in the Balkans." “Life in the Cave,” one of the chapters of My Adventures, is very interesting.
Punctuation 标点符号
8. 引号。英语中有单引号和双引号；汉语一般 只用双引号。引号用来表示文中的直接引语。 当直接引语超过四行或多于40 个字词时, 一 般不用引号而改用黑体字以便与文章的其它 部分界线清晰 。句号和逗号必须置于引号(双 引号和单引号) 之内。例如： “Well, ” the foreigner said to him ,“ you look like an engineer. ” 引号中如再加引号可用单引号。“I heard ‘stop thief, stop thief’ being shouted, ” he said.
Punctuation 标点符号
5. 逗号 “，” 。 在英语中，引起直接引语的说明以及一般 函件开头的称呼语等一类用语后都用逗号，而 不象汉语那样用冒号。（但美国用冒号）。逗 号是英文写作中最常用的标点符号。对中国学 生而言，也是最容易出错的地方。因为以中国 人写作的思维，只要一句话意思没完，便要用 逗号，而对于英文写作，只要句子结构完整便 要用句号。例如：
Punctuation 标点符号
1. 顿号“、”。英语没有顿号，一般用逗号取代。 汉语中用顿号表示一句话中间并列的词和词组之 间的停顿。如：This kind of machine is widely used in India, Russia, the U.S.A. and China. (这种机器在 印度、俄罗斯、美国、中国广泛应用。) 2.书名号。 汉语书名号为《》，表示书籍、报刊等 名称。英语中不用书名号，而是用斜体字或字下 线表示。在手写稿和打印稿中，字下线和印刷品 中的斜体字功用相同。例如： He reads the People’s Daily every day. Wuthering Heights is one of his favorite novels.
Basic Writing Skills
写作的基本技能
Chapter One
General Knowledge of English Writing 英语写作常识
Ⅰ. Punctuation 标点符号
The comma (,) The period (.) The semicolon (;) The colon (:) The question mark (?) The exclamation mark (!) Quotation mark (“”) Parentheses/brackets ((…)) Square brackets (【…】) 【 】 The dash(-) The slash (/) Underlining and Italics
引号的用法
2）引号和其他标点符号配合使用时，美国的通 行办法如下： 句号和逗号放在引号之内： "John," she said, "I've lost my gloves." You should read his article on "New Criticism," which is very interesting.
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7. 省略号(ellipsis)。 英语的省略号是三个实心 的小圆点，位于一行的中间。英语etc.不能和 省略号连用而汉语则可以。如： 标点误用：There is a pen, two apples, three oranges …etc. in the box. 正确的句子：There is a pen, two apples, three oranges, etc. in the box.
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11. 破折号 3) 也可用来标出插入语： Three countries - Spain, Italy and Hungary abstained. His old problems - such as asthma and high blood pressure - are still worrying him. 4）有时在一系列名词之后引出一个总结性的从句： Poor management, insufficient supply of raw material, and shortage of skilled workers - these were the main causes of the failure of the factory. Father, Mother, John and Susan - all were surprised by my announcement.
Punctuation 标点符号
3.句号。 英语的句号是是实心的小圆点，即 “.”, 常用于陈述句和祈使句之后。而汉语的句号是空 心圆圈，即“。”。 4.冒号。 英语中的冒号可对主句进行说明、引申、 解释等等；也用于引语之前。冒号在记时间时可 用来区分小时与分钟，可表示赛事的比分，可在 事务性信件中放在称呼之后，可在演讲稿中放在 对听众的称呼之后。例如：
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10. 方括号 1）用来标出引语中引用者加的改正或说明部分： He wrote: "One great poet of the Song dynasty [Su Shi] said that in Wang Wei's poetry there was painting and in his paintings there was poetry.” 2）如圆括号中还需要用括号，则用方括号代替圆括号： William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White wrote a very useful little book for students learning to write (The Elements of Style [New York: Macmillan, 1972]).
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9. 圆括号 1）用来标明插入性的、补充性的或注释性的词 语： A PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) delegation is to visit China next month. Bai Juyi (772-846) was a great poet of the Tang dynasty. He is teaching two courses (Linguistics and Theoretical Grammar) this semester.