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Message from samatar posted on 02-02-2012 at 23:56:38 (D | E | F)
Hello,
I just joined the web and I want to improve my English . People tell me that I speak a good English but that is not true I believe because sometimes it is very hard for me to have a chat with someone .
Sometimes I go to the bank and want to talk to a clerk about my account and it is hard for me to find the right words so they get confused. I got one more problem when I write English as I don't know how to use these (.,'? " ! ` - () | \) some of them I don't even know their names or their common names, so that is why I am here to solve those problems .
Thank you for your help.
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Edited by lucile83 on 03-02-2012 07:39
Message from samatar posted on 02-02-2012 at 23:56:38 (D | E | F)
Hello,
I just joined the web and I want to improve my English . People tell me that I speak a good English but that is not true I believe because sometimes it is very hard for me to have a chat with someone .
Sometimes I go to the bank and want to talk to a clerk about my account and it is hard for me to find the right words so they get confused. I got one more problem when I write English as I don't know how to use these (.,'? " ! ` - () | \) some of them I don't even know their names or their common names, so that is why I am here to solve those problems .
Thank you for your help.
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Edited by lucile83 on 03-02-2012 07:39
Re: New student /help from stammer, posted on 03-02-2012 at 01:09:13 (D | E)
Evening,
I'm sure you could find these anywhere but here are the names of some of the punctuation marks you listed:
. full stop (American - period)
, comma
; semi-colon
: colon
? question mark
" inverted commas
' apostrophe
! exclamation mark
( bracket () brackets
‒ dash
- hyphen
And you might want to look at this:
Link
Re: New student /help from jonquille, posted on 03-02-2012 at 03:55:33 (D | E)
Hello.
Here is a little more to what stammer has already written.
. full stop (American - period)
, comma
; semi-colon
: colon
? question mark
" inverted commas (American - quotation marks)
' apostrophe
! exclamation mark
( bracket () brackets [American - parenthesis (sing.) / parentheses (plur.)]
[ ] brackets (American)
‒ dash
- hyphen
Here are a couple of sites that may help you to learn when or how to use them:
Link
Link
Good luck!
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