An English professor gave his students the phrase: "A woman without her man is nothing." and asked them to punctuate it correctly.
All the males in the class wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."
All the females proposed another option: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."
An English professor gave his students the phrase: "A woman without her man is nothing." and asked them to punctuate it correctly.
All the males in the class wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."
All the females proposed another option: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."
READING SECTION
It is a very impressive example, isn't it? You could observe that the different punctuation can damage the flow of the idea and change meaning. Also, it can undermine the credibility of your experience as the specialist. As the day before yesterday we took responsibility for developing 4 skills of English, i.e. writing, reading, speaking, and listening, we need to concentrate our efforts on your writing skills. Otherwise, how can you write a clear comment on this or further posts?
From this moment we publish a material on punctuation. And today's tips explain you the whole concept of punctuation. Do you still remember that usually we check words before we use them?
Macmillan Dictionary "punctuation" noun
1.the use of marks such as full stops or commas in order to write in a clear style, e.g. 1. Mistakes in punctuation can be amended. 2.The letter was brief and had no punctuation.
2. punctuation marks:
2.1 Scare quotes (=the symbols ’ and ’)
2.2 Ampersand (the symbol &)
2.3 Apostrophe (the symbol ’)
2.4 Bracket:
• parentheses (the symbol ())
• square bracket (the symbol [])
• curly brackets (the symbol {})
2.5 Bullet/bullet point (the symbol -)
2.6 Colon (the symbol : )
2.7 Comma (the symbol , )
2.8 Dash (the symbol – )
2.9 Decimal point (the symbol ‘.’)
2.10 Ditto (the symbol ")
2.11 Dot
2.12 Ellipsis (the symbol …)
2.13 Exclamation mark (the mark !)
2.14 Full stop (the mark .)
2.15 Hyphen (the short line -)
2.16 Inverted comma (one of a pair of marks “ ”)
2.17 Parenthesis (one of the two symbols ( and ))
2.18 Point (the word for a decimal point)
2.19 Question mark (the symbol ?)
2.20 Quotation marks (the symbols ‘ and ’)
2.21 Semicolon (a punctuation mark (;))
2.22 Slash (a line / )
2.23 Space (an empty area).
(source: Macmillan Dictionary)
Don't be scared of such a big number of punctuation marks. Some of them you use in your daily
life very often, whereas the others are used mostly by specialists from different domains of knowledge, e.g. the mark dot is practiced by mathematicians as decimal point or a symbol indicating multiplication, e.g. 2 · 4 = 8.Common units of punctuation include the comma, period, apostrophe, quotation mark, question mark, exclamation mark, bracket, dash, hyphen, ellipsis, colon, and semicolon. Each of these units indicates a different thing, and may have multiple meanings depending on context…
Stop, stop!
According to the phrase, "there is an appointed time for everything", there is a time for every event. Let's finish our introduction lesson; we pick marks some other time.
LISTENING SECTION
SPEAKING SECTION
As you understand, we cannot participate in developing your speaking abilities directly. But it doesn't mean that we are going to give up without strike. We can suggest you short tips on pronunciation. As you noticed, today we cover all the themes very briefly. The speaking section will not be an exception.
Did you know that English is considered a stressed language while many other languages are considered syllabic? Meaning? In English only some words get stress while other words are quickly spoken (in other languages, such as French or Italian, each syllable receives equal importance). Look at the chart of stressed and un-stressed words.
Stressed words:
1. Nouns, e.g. pen
2. Verbs, e.g. write
3. Adjectives, e.g. interesting
4. Adverbs, e.g. carefully
Non-stressed words:
1. Determiners, e.g. the, a, some, a few
2. Auxiliary verbs, e.g. don't, am, can, were
3. Prepositions, e.g. before, next to, opposite
4. Conjunctions, e.g. but, while, as
5. Pronouns, e.g. they, she, us
In comparison with English, in other languages, such as French or Italian, each syllable receives equal importance. But we want to point out again that when you speak, you should concentrate on pronouncing the stressed
words clearly. Do you want to fix it? Video on this topic
WRITING PART
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