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/ˌpʌŋktʃuˈeɪʃən/
The marks you put into a piece of writing, such as , full stops and question marks, that cut it into sentences and phrases so the reader can see where each part starts and stops.
標點符號
核心畫面
Think of writing as one long line of words. Punctuation is the set of small marks dropped into that line — , full stops, question marks — that show the reader where to pause, where one thought ends and the next begins.
可以想成：文字本來是一條沒有斷點的長線，讀者一路讀下去不知道該在哪裡停、哪裡換氣、哪一段話是問句。標點就是插進這條線…更多收起
可以想成：文字本來是一條沒有斷點的長線，讀者一路讀下去不知道該在哪裡停、哪裡換氣、哪一段話是問句。標點就是插進這條線裡的一些小記號——逗號、句號、問號——它們把長線切成一段一段，讓讀者看得出來每個意思從哪裡開始、到哪裡結束。它們本身不發音，卻決定了整句話怎麼被讀。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
punctuationnoun/ˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃuˈeɪ.ʃən/
- 1
A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences; examples include commas, hyphens, and stops (periods).
- Different languages have different rules for punctuation.
- 2
Nikud.
- Jeremiah ii. 34, where the meaningless אֵלֶּה ("these") of the Massoretic text should be corrected into אַלָּה or לַהאֱ ("oak" or "terebinth") […] The change is merely one of punctuation; the original Hebrew text remains unaffected.
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An act of punctuating.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。