week 2 more punctuation marks 现代大学英语上课教材ppt.ppt

More punctuation marks Ye Zhaoqing September 18, 2010 Review—Exercise A glance at Grandmas familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair watching her setting down some letter to relatives Character by character Grandma would slowly accomplish one word then the next so that a finished page would consume hours I wept over the page representing my Grandmas recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness to me whom she used to diaper A glance at Grandma’s familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair, watching her “setting down ” some letter to relatives. Character by character, Grandma would slowly accomplish one word, then the next, so that a finished page would consume hours. I wept over the page representing my Grandma’s recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness to me—whom she used to diaper! More punctuation marks  parentheses ( ): set off words, dates, or statements that give additional information, explain, or qualify the main thought. e.g. To encourage sales, some automobile manufacturers name their cars after fast or sleek animals (Impala, Mustang, and Thunderbird, for example). Popular American author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) described many of his childhood experience in Tom Sawyer (1876). parentheses ( ): period and parenthesis e.g. The Colorado winters of 1978 and 1979 broke records for low temperatures. (see pages 72-73 for temperature charts.) To encourage sales, some automobile manufacturers name their cars after fast or sleek animals (Impala, Mustang, and Thunderbird, for example). Brackets [ ] If additional information needs to appear in material already enclosed in parentheses, use brackets to avoid the confusion of double parenthesis marks. e.g. Nineteenth-century author Kate Chopin often found herself in the midst of controversy. (For example, The Awakening [1899] was considered so scandalous th