Download PDF by Stefan Langenbach: What's the point? - An essay on punctuation

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Englisch - Grammatik, Stil, Arbeitstechnik, observe: 3,0, Universität zu Köln (Philosophische Fakultät), Sprache: Deutsch, summary: This essay will concentrate on using punctuation and punctuation marks in American and British English writing. As this day a growing number of humans appear to no longer use the correct amount of punctuation marks anymore and marks just like the semicolon are meant to have died out I puzzled, no matter if those assumptions of Lynne Truss in her brilliantly written publication Eats, Shoots and Leaves (2003) are precise or no longer. so one can try this, a survey was once ready and omitted to 12 former or real scholars of English – a lot of whom plan to turn into a instructor or are already operating as academics; also the survey used to be given to 8 those that didn't / don't examine the English language yet realized English in class, went to numerous areas, the place English is spoken or not less than reside in our Americanized international with its quite a few variations from the English language. The survey which that they had to do and that are present in the appendix offers with English punctuation yet however was once brought in German, which was once selected for you to stay away from difficulties in figuring out the several projects, which may have distorted the result of the survey. The sentences utilized in the survey have been as a rule taken out of books, describing difficulties of punctuating, in order that you possibly can make certain to not make the type of errors one used to be making plans to check others on. as well as the comparability of the result of the survey from scholars / non-students of English, additionally local audio system have been requested to accomplish the survey; the purpose of this was once to check the result of moment language newcomers with these of native-speakers and to determine, who of those have been capable of achieve a greater end result. prior to the survey and its information are analyzed, using punctuation and punctuation marks generally might be thought of, yet first of all the query what punctuation is and how much use it has will be elaborated upon.