Os sinais de pontuação representam os recursos atribuídos à escrita. Dentre suas muitas finalidades, está a de reproduzir pausas e entonações da fala.
Como chamamos esses sinais em Inglês?
a. ( . ) Period / Full Stop – She had a babe last night.
b. ( : ) Colon – I have two sisters: Lucy and Jane.
c. ( ; ) Semicolon – “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” (Peter Drucker)
d. ( , ) Comma – I thank my mother, my father and my sister.
e. ( ? ) Question Mark – Do you study English?
f. ( ! ) Exclamation Mark – I can’t believe she is married!
g. (” “) Quotation Marks – She shared her “truth” with me.
h. ( ‘ ) Apostrophe – They’re here.
i. ( … ) Ellipsis – I thought she was…
j. ( / ) Slash – and/or
k. ( – ) Hyphen – The Blair Witch Project was one of the most successful low-budget films.
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