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" 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. The Comma represents the shortest... "
English Grammar on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently ... - Page 188
by Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1847 - 192 pages
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...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...semicolon ; and the Period, double that of the colon. The precise quantity or duration of each pause, cannot be defined ; for it. varies with the time of...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...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...that of the semicolon ; and the Period, double that ©f the colon. The 'precise t[uantity or duration of each patise, cannot be dcBn«d ; fork varies with...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...Compiler refers the ingenious student, for more extensive information on the subject. PUNCTUATION.* The Comma represents the shortest pause ; the Semicolon,...semicolon ; and the Period, double that of the colon, PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing'a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by...
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English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 pages
...stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pro* nunciatiou require. The Comma represents the shortest pause ;...semicolon ; and the Period, double that of the colon. The precise quantity or duration of each pause, cannot be defined ; for it varies with the time of...
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The British encyclopedia, or, Dictionary of arts and sciences, Volume 5

William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...th« sense requires. The comma (,) represents the shortest pause; the semicolon (;) a pause doublr that of the comma ; the colon (:) double that of the...semicolon ; and the period (.) double that of the colon. The precise duration of these pauses must depend on the degree of slowness or rapidity observed in...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners, with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose ol marking the different pauses which, the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require. The Comma represents the shortest pause ; tte Semicolon, a pause double that of the comma ; the Colon, double that of the semicolon; and the...
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Abridgement of Murray's English Grammar: With an Appendix, Containing ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 114 pages
...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 shortest pause ; th* Seniicclon, a pause double that of the comma ; the Colon, double that of the semicolon ; and...
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The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 5

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 684 pages
...represents the shortest pause; the semicolon (;> a pause doable that of the comma; the colon (:) doable that of the semicolon ; and the period (.) double that of the colon. The precise dotation of these pauses must depend on the degree of slowness or rapidity observed ia...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners, with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1810 - 322 pages
...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...shortest pause ; the Semicolon, a pause double that oi the comma ; the Colon, double that of the semicolon ; and the Period double that of the colon. The...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners. With an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1811 - 322 pages
...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. The Comma represents the shortest pause; tk Semicolon, a pause double that of the comma : the Colon, double that of the Semicolon; and the Period,...
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