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B. A. Final Semester VI
Department of English
Govt. Degree College Burhanpur
Signature Guide
K.A.Q. Ansari
Signature Student............
Jitendra Bidihare
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I am indebted to my teachers specially guide K.A.Q.
Ansari, whose guidance, effort and moral support are
instrumental in accomplishing this project successfully at time. I
would like to thanks every people who helped me by any means,
in completing this project work.
My parents also deserve credit for their contribution. I am
truly thankful to their constant moral supports, inspiration and
encouragement.
I wish to express my gratitude to my colleagues who
helped me to complete this project.
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Punctuation
In writing the punctuation marks play a crucial role, and make
the context comprehensive. Due to the lack of punctuation
marks or misrepresentation of them in writing make the text
ambiguous, and one can not understand the text easily.
It is often seen that even high educated people are unable
to use punctuation marks or they dont use them because they
are not familiar with them. Only about a dozen marks need to be
mastered and the guidelines are fairly simple. What is more, you
can see the marks being applied every day in the newspapers.
A good command of punctuation helps you to say more,
say it interestingly and exactly, and be understood at first
reading. Punctuation is an essential part or writing as
important as choosing the right words. Without the good
punctuation sentence can be interpreted in different ways or
make no sense at all, distracting the readers and causing them to
stop and backtrack. Punctuation helps to fix the meaning and
smooth the path. Punctuation shows how words and strings of
words are related, separated and emphasized, so its main
Semicolon (;)
The Semicolon represents a pause of great importance than that
shown by the comma. It is used:(1) To separate the clauses of compound sentences, when they
contain a comma; as,
He was a brave, large-hearted man; and we honoured him.
(2) To separate the loosely related clauses; as,
Her coat was pure; her life serene.
Colon (:)
The Colon marks a still more complete pause than that
expressed by the Semicolon. It is used often with a dash after it.
(1) To indicate a quotation; as,
Bacon says: - It is impossible to love and be wise.
(2) Before enumeration, examples, etc; as,
The principal parts of a verb in English are; Present tense, Past
tense and Past participle.
(3) Between sentences grammatically independent but closely
connected in sense.
Study to acquire a habit of thinking; no study is important.