Learn Punctuation: period, exclamation mark, question mark in Basic English Grammar.

Learn Punctuation: period, exclamation mark, question mark in Basic English Grammar.
The main purpose of this lecture is to introduce the students with some key elements of punctuation. We use punctuation to make the meaning of a written passage clear. The focus here is on full stop, comma, hyphen, dash, and colon. The second part of the lecture
What is the purpose? A period ends a sentence. Seems simple enough, everybody knows this. Correct? But it's not that simple. Many, many times I've seen students writing and not putting the period in the correct place. What...

Another thing you have to remember about the period is what comes after it is always a capital letter. Okay? Many people forget the capital after a period. A period ends a sentence which means it ends a complete idea. Whatever comes after the period is already a new idea. Of course, one idea flows to the next idea; one idea builds on the previous idea, but they are two separate ideas. When you have completed your sentence, when you have completed your idea - put a period. And British people call this: "a full stop". Same idea, means: full stop, done, next idea. Okay? With a capital letter. Always don't forget the capital letter. Or never forget the capital letter. Okay?

Another thing to remember about the period is that once you have a sentence with a complete independent clause and you don't have another independent clause with a conjunction, "and", "but", "so", "or", etcetera or a semi-colon-this is a semi-colon-that means your sentence is finished. If you have two independent clauses in a sentence and you don't have the conjunction, you don't have the semi-colon, means you have a run-on sentence. Okay? A "run-on sentence" is a sentence that has two subjects, two verbs, no spacing, no conjunction, no period. Okay?

Let's look at an example of a run-on sentence.
"Stacey and Claire went shopping at the mall with Ted and Alex they bought new clothes."
Does this sentence seem okay to you? If it does, there's a problem. Okay? We have "Stacey and Claire" as your subject-sorry, this is a "v" actually-"went shopping at the mall". Where? "With Ted and Alex". With who? This is a complete idea. "Stacey and Claire went shopping at the mall with Ted and Alex." Your idea is complete, this is what they did.

Now, at the mall, what did they do? "They bought new clothes." I put a period, I put a capital. I have to separate ideas, therefore, two separate sentences. Now, is there any other way I can fix this? Of course. I can put a comma after: "Alex," I could put the word: "and they bought", in which case, that sentence is fine. "And" joins two independent.

So, every time you're writing... Punctuation, of course, is for writing, not for speaking; we don't see punctuation in speaking. Every time you write, check your sentences. If you have two independent clauses, means two subject, subject, verb, and then subject, verb. If you have two of these, two combinations of subject and verb without a period between them, without a conjunction, without a semi-colon - you have a run-on sentence. Okay?

Just to make sure, here's another sentence. I'll take this away. Something came before.
"As a result," -of whatever came before-"the police evacuated the tenants of the building they thought this would be safer."
Oh. "The tenants of the building they thought this would be safer." Wait a minute. What's going on? Where does the sentence end? Where does the idea end? What's the next part of the sentence? Okay? "The police evacuated". Who? "The tenants". Which tenants? "Of the building". Okay? "The building they thought this", no. Okay, "The building that they thought this", no, doesn't make sense. So this must be the next subject, "they thought". Who are "they"? The police. "They thought". What? "This would be safer." So now, I need to put something here. I need to break up these two sentences because they're two separate ideas. This sentence explains why they did the action in the first sentence.
Punctuation (formerly sometimes called pointing) is the use of spacing, conventional signs, and certain typographical devices as aids to the understanding and the correct reading, both silently and aloud, of handwritten and printed texts.
Dhaka Board Question - 2015
Punctuation Mark
SHORT CUT TIPS

The man said to me,” Where are you going?” “ I am going to school,” said I.” Did you go to school, yesterday?” “No,” I replied. “Why didn’t you go?” “I was very busy,” said I.
that থাকবে না
Comill Board question - 2015
Robert Bruce, the king of Scotland, was defeated at a war and failed to regain his country’s freedom several times. Naturally, he was in a very dejected mood. Sitting in his hide out, he lost himself in deep thought.
punctuation
pʌŋ(k)tʃʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/Submit
noun
1.
the marks, such as full stop, comma, and brackets, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

[avimannaydas]

স্যার অাপনার ভিডিও দেখে খুব ভাল লাগছে। কিন্তু অনেক কিছু শিক্ষতে পারলাম।

[joynalabedinjoy]

Sir আমি আপনার ভিডিও দেখে অনেক কিছু শিখেছি। তারপরও অনেক কিছু ভুল করছি। আমাদের degree 2016 exame এই punctuate টি এসেছিল it see that youre in the habit of eating a heavy luncheon im sure its a mistake why dont you follow my example and just eat one thing im sure youd feel ever so much better for it আমি ভুল করেছিলাম। তাই আপনার কাছে আমার অনুরোধ এইটা সহ আরো কয়েকটি দিয়ে একটি ভিডিও বানাবেন। তাহলে আমি সহ আরো অনেকেই উপকৃত হত। আল্লাহ যেনো আপনার ভালো করে।

[lovelybegum]

Thank you so much
I ama student of class 6

[MasudRana-qprs]

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[md.abirhossain]

Am I watching a comedy!🤣😂😂😂😁

Awesome technique

[tapanmondal]

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[anwoersarkar]

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[babulhosen]

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[abontimoni]

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[sadiasultana]

Thank you sir. I am a student of class six.