Important tool of writers: Punctuation marks

Punctuation is present in any text and in any sentence. Even a dot at the end of a sentence is already a punctuation. A good writer has to know the rules of punctuation and use all the punctuations properly. The way a writer uses punctuation effects how readers understand his writing and what he has to say, and this is why punctuation is so important.

Punctuations are important tool to any writers, without the punctuation marks the article or book becomes a monotone without any life. We pause, stop and change our tone of voice while speaking; this is what punctuation does in the printed articles.

The Punctuations are the guidelines as to how to read the articles, and what it conveys. Punctuation helps the writer to make his article or book seem alive. The various form of punctuations are coma, quotation marks, hyphen, semi colon, and apostrophes.

The punctuation marks help the reader to understand when to pause, when to change the tone and when to stop. The use of semi colon for example is not only to separate sentences having many comas, but also to join complex independent sentences, to make it seem as one. Semi colon is also makes the article look neat and simple and helps in breaking down complex sentences and to make it easier to understand when there is a list of words followed by comas. The second punctuation being the colon is used to start a new list, to start a quotation, in showing the timing and in providing references to books. Hyphen is used to emphasis a sentence, parentheses are used to provide additional information to the existing word or phrase. Quotation marks are used to mark direct sentences, example when a phrase shows that someone is talking or explaining. Coma is used to separate one word from another; it is used to mark a pause while reading out. Thus the various punctuation marks denote various guidelines followed when writing or while reading an article or book.

Punctuation like grammar are necessary in any writing material. It is with the help of a punctuation mark does a person know where a sentence stops and another begins, the pause in sentences etc. Using punctuation marks not only provides guidelines on how an article or book must be written but also makes the article looks alive and helps a reader to visualize. Punctuation helps a person to put down those rules in print, which are followed while reading. Punctuation helps in providing a readable and enjoyable form of writing and reading. Some of the most common form of punctuations are comas and semi colons. Both help the readers to mark the difference from one word to another, helps in enlisting etc. Semi colon helps to join two independent sentences, and helps us to read them intelligently. It helps to join two independent and complex sentences too. It provides for a pause while reading and hence makes reading more understandable and enjoyable.

Use of punctuation marks is not only guidelines set while writing. But punctuation marks like use of semi colon provides for a understandable and enjoyable reading. Punctuation marks also make the article look neat and not cluttered. They help each sentences seem apart and independent, help in enlisting and help in changing to active voice when necessary. Hence use of punctuation helps to breathe life into writing like how verbs and nouns in grammar help the article look lively and colorful.