By Intonations, Punctuation

Hello to all, I believe that to learn English depends of the interest of individual and depending of the English knowledge you wanted to learn. like for instance, if you want to speak English all you have to do is to listen very carefully to some tools such as CD, DVD, tapes etc. either audio...

Pucca wrote:I wonder how your sister destroyed the ringWhat? I would never put a question mark in that sentence, it wouldn't make any sense. I use punctuation to modify the rhytm and intonation a little... like, uh, yeah, like this. This? Yep, this! Sure? Yes!!!So a question mark always...

Absolutely. If it was SAID, there were no dashes, commas, periods, etc. Only pauses or intonation to tell you what punctuation would be appropriate. It's up to you to use the punctuation that keeps the original meaning.

Emeritus Professor John C. Wells in his daily phonetic blog on Firday 20 October 2006: Unusual pronunciations observed recently in the mouths of native speakers of English: from a CNN newsreader, to obey someone sl/æ/vishly. Since the point being made was the possible offensiveness of this...

(This Anonymous is me; I forgot to log in-- MM)Well frankly, Frankly, I think the first thing to do is to work on polishing your written English. As it is, it is difficult to read and understand because of the poor punctuation, spelling and structure. Let me correct your post, for instance:I...

Hello Franco You might add the cadential comma to your list – a comma whose function is to indicate the rhythm. People tend to punctuate for sense, now; but in Hardy's day, it was still common for one person to read out loud, and others to listen. Punctuation told the reader when to breathe,...

From "A Grammar of Contemporary English", by R. Quirk et al. Both question and exclamation mark exclude the use of other separation punctuation and have the value of a period inasmuch as what follows begins with the capitalisation of a new sentence. But when they co-ocur with the end of...