 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...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 precise quantity or duration of each pause, cannot be defined ; for it varies with the time of the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...written composition 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1810 - 322 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1811 - 322 pages
...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...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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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... 
