Sentence examples for marks in writing from inspiring English sources

("I used to get good marks in writing," he said).

In elementary school, she received average marks in writing and art.

The function of quotation marks in written language is simply to indicate that words are being used in this special, quotational, way, i.e. not (only) with their regular extensions.

Not that we won't write about the company, but our style editor has ruled that we will no longer give the company its exclamation mark in writing about it.

Sentence boundaries, for example -- which seem obvious on a printed page but are harder to spot in speech -- are typically marked in writing by periods.

The law prefers manual recounts, he said, because they are more useful for ballots marked in writing than for ballot cards that are punched.

This form, differing from the declarative statement only by the question mark in writing, or by rising intonation in speech, calls, like sentences (2) and (3), for a yes or no answer but suggests doubt on the part of the questioner that the action is taking place.

When referring to the mark in writing, always distinguish it from other words in the text -- for example, by always capitalizing the mark or using a different font.

Ito et al. (2007) assert that the low allocation of marks to writing in the Japanese test may lead to a lack of teachers' attention to writing activities in Japanese high schools.

A collection of histone-modifying enzymes including lysine methyltransferases, arginine methyltransferases, serine-threonine kinases, and acetyltransferases is involved in writing each mark.

The novel is in part a catalog of sins, from Martin's attempt to get Flint fired after the older man dismisses his novel as "just paper with little black marks on it" to his "mendacity" in writing himself into a scene depicting his mother's death, when in fact he was off sulking with his boyfriend during the actual event.