Example sentences for: punctuation

How can you use “punctuation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Deciding that the normal rules of punctuation and grammar promoted old-fashioned sentiment, she came up with new rules of her own (question marks and exclamation points verboten ; evocative nouns and adjectives dangerous; adverbs excellent, because they're about nothing more than the relationship between words).

  • In a dream, the answer came to him: punctuation !

  • Several times a day I still think of Parkes' disquisition on the now-obsolete punctuation mark known as a percontativus , a question mark flopped backward and used to indicate a question that is purely rhetorical.

  • Here, one might yearn for some punctuation: surely the last four words cannot be considered alongside the first three.

  • There are many examples of how sentences with improper punctuation marks sound ludicrous.


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