Biggest Punctuation?

Question

Which punctuation is the biggest deal when writing/reading sentence structures?

Answer 1

All punctuation is critical to get your point across and meet your rhetorical objective. Inappropriate use of punctuation can alter your message. Commas, periods, semicolons and other punctuation are all important but ending a thought and starting a new one is critical to conveying meaning. Therefore, the period is most crucial or the "biggest deal" and could be used alone effectively without any other punctuation. No other punctuation could be used alone in piece of writing.

Answer 2

The semi-colon carries a lot of weight when deciding if a sentence structure is compound, complex, or compound-complex!

Answer 3

When I reflect on the phrase biggest deal, I think about which punctuation makes the biggest deal out of a point. If that is the case, the exclamation point (!) makes the biggest deal when expressing an idea.

Periods are used most often. However, as previous tutors have mentioned, different punctuation imply different meanings. With informal English, sometimes people use !? to show shock and confusion at the same time. It could even express disbelief.

Answer 4

It really depends on the student's level of English. Early on, it's important to remember periods at the ends of sentences. With more complex sentence structures, commas are important. There are a number of rules, and a variety of ways they are applied.

Answer 5

Not writing sentence fragments or run-on sentences is a really big deal when it comes to writing and reading sentence structures. You want to make sure that you are writing complete sentences that are very succinct and do not go off on tangents when explaining or describing something. Therefore, correct punctuation, capitalization, line spacing and word spacing are all key to crafting correctly-composed sentences from beginning to end each time. Spelling is also essential so as not to inadvertently include a different word or gibberish in your writing that will throw your readers and your writing itself off. Editing and proofreading come into play here most effectively.