 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...refers the ingenious student, for more extensive information on the subject. ( 257 ) PUNCTUATION.* PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition...the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require. The Comma represents the shortest pause ; the Semicolon, a pause double that of the comma ; the Colon,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...that of the semicolon ; and the Period, double that of the colon, PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing'a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences,...the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require. ) The precise quantity or duration of each pause, cannot be defined ; for it varies with the time of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...student, for more extensive information on the subject. PUNCTUATION:* PUNCTUATION Is the art of dividing'a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, 'by points or stops, for the.purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 pages
...the Compiler refers the ingenious student, for more extensive information on the subject. PUMCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition into...different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pro* nunciatiou require. The Comma represents the shortest pause ; the Semicolon, a pause double that... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...the Compiler refcw rfte iu^««Mvtti «tW*wt, for uifo«aaa<tti wn vi* PUNCTUATION. JL UNCTUATION * is the art of dividing a written composition into...the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require. The Comma represents the shortest pause ; the Semicolon, a pause double that of the comma; the Colon,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...Compiler refers the ingenious student, for more extensive information on the subject. PUNCTUATION* PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition...of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose ol marking the different pauses which, the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require. The Comma... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 346 pages
...refers the ingenious student, lor more extensive information onlhe subject. PUNCTUATION.* PUHCTU ATjON K the art of dividing a written composition into sentences,...or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the pui*pose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require. The... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 684 pages
...measure fur liijutdf. containing an hogshead and one third, or eighty -four gallons. PUNCTUATION, tbe art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stop*, for the parpose of marking the different pauses wtjck the sense requires. The comma (,) represents... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 114 pages
...to the ktsi sound or syllable of another. PUNCTUATION Is the .art of dividing a written composition sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the difterent pauses, -which the sense and an accurate pronunciation require^ The Comma represents the... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pages
...correspondence of the last sound of one verse, to the last sound or syllable of another. PUNCTUATION. PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition...purpose of marking the different pauses, which the M'lise and an accurate pronunciation require. The points are marked in the following manner : The Comma... | |
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PUNCTUATION. PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses, which the sense and an accurate pronunciation require. 
