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don’t know the correct usage of the full stop. So I'm going to
explain the correct usage of the full stops, by showing the rules
of using it, and I'm going to show some examples of what the
Before I begin talking about my project, I made a frequency data to see what words or articles
the students use, and we see that the students, used( To) 81 times and the (he), 70 time, this is
a good thing, and shows that the student can improve their writing in the future.
Full stops
After we have seen the definition of the full stop, let see an example of
how the students use the full stops in their writings, and examples that
show the correct usage of it.
We see here that the student who wrote this paragraph, made some
mistakes in using the full stops. Instead of putting a full stop after he
finishes this sentence:
Period is the preferred term in North America. The term full stop is rarely
used by speakers in Canada, and virtually never in the United States, but it
is the only term in British English.
The same glyph has two separate uses with regard to numbers, the one
applied being determined by the country it is used in: as a decimal
separator and in presenting large numbers in a more readable form. In
most English-speaking countries, the full stop has the former usage while
a comma or a space is used for the latter:
As with many such differences, the American rule follows an older British
standard. The typesetter’s rule was standard in early 19th century Britain;
the grammatical rule was advocated by the extremely influential book The
King’s English, by Fowler and Fowler.
“Carefree” means “free from care or anxiety.” (American style)
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“Carefree” means “free from care or anxiety”. (British style)
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In British style, both single and double quotation marks are possible, but
more modern style guides like the BBC’s tend to prefer the latter.[4]
Before the advent of mechanical type, the order of quotation marks with
full stops and commas was not given much consideration. The printing
press required that the easily damaged smallest pieces of type for the
comma and full stop be protected behind the more robust quotation
marks.[5] The U.S. style still adheres to this older tradition in formal
writing but usually not in everyday use. Today, most areas of publication
conform to one of the two standards above. However, in subjects such as
chemistry and software documentation it is conventional to include only
the precise quoted text within the quotation marks. This avoids ambiguity
with regard to whether a punctuation mark belongs to the quotation:
Enter the URL as “www.wikipedia.org”, the name as “Wikipedia”, and click “OK”.
See: Double spacing, which includes a full history of spacing rules, a review of readability vs
Alternatively, see that article's Style Preferences subsection for current practice.
There are three main conventions relating to the number of spaces used to
separate sentences within the same paragraph:
one widened space, typically one-and-a-third to slightly less than two times wider than an
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inter-word space (traditional typography)
tradition. Most fonts used in word processors since the mid-1990's have the correct spacing
already adjusted, rendering the traditional double space after a full stop obsolete.[6]
Note that the term double spacing can also refer to a style of leading: the
insertion of a full additional empty line between lines of text. This is
commonly used for text which may incorporate later markup or
modifications, such as proof-readers' copies or legal documents.
[edit] Computing use
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In file systems, the full stop is commonly used to separate the extension of
a file name from the name of the file. RISC OS uses full stops to separate
levels of the hierarchical file system when writing path names - similar to
/ in Unix-based systems and \ in MS-DOS-based systems.