{"id":25745,"date":"2023-01-27T01:46:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishonlinecourse.in\/?page_id=25745"},"modified":"2023-02-21T21:54:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:24:58","slug":"punctuation-in-english-grammar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/englishonlinecourse.in\/index.php\/punctuation-in-english-grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson- 4\u00a0Punctuation in English Grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"25745\" class=\"elementor elementor-25745\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0338e49 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0338e49\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column 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.elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><b>punctuation<\/b><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cceb4ae elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cceb4ae\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-62a48d5\" data-id=\"62a48d5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0bbfb8a elementor-widget 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two choices: finish the work today or lose the contract.<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><h1>\u00a0&#8211;<\/h1><\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hyphen<\/span><\/td><td>\u00a0<\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a rather out-of-date book.<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><h1>\u00a0s_<\/h1><\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dash<\/span><\/td><td>\u00a0<\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In each town\u2014London, Paris and Rome\u2014we stayed in youth hostels.<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><h1>\u00a0?<\/h1><\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">question mark<\/span><\/td><td>\u00a0<\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where is Shangri-La?<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!<\/span><\/h1><\/td><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exclamation mark<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exclamation point (AmE)<\/span><\/p><\/td><td>\u00a0<\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Help!&#8221; she cried. &#8220;I can&#8217;t swim!&#8221;<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><h1>\u00a0\/<\/h1><\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">slash, forward slash or oblique<\/span><\/td><td>\u00a0<\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please press your browser&#8217;s Refresh\/Reload button.<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!<\/span><\/h1><\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">backslash<\/span><\/td><td>\u00a0<\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C:\\Files\\jo.doc<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><h1>\u00a0&#8220;<\/h1><\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">double quotation marks<\/span><\/td><td>\u00a0<\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I love you,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><h1>\u00a0&#8216;<\/h1><\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">single quotation marks<\/span><\/td><td>\u00a0<\/td><td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;I love you,&#8217; she 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