Sentence examples for punctuation functions from inspiring English sources

There are discoverable rules, or at least workable generalisations, about how punctuation functions.

It seems almost trite, then, to point out that punctuation functions to divide written discourse into manageable units.

By proposing that punctuation functions to realise information structure in written English, this paper enables the function of information structure to remain the same in spoken and written English while retaining a natural non-arbitrary relationship between realisation and function in both modes.

There is also "fucking" as a kind of midsentence punctuation (functioning like "but"): "She would just fucking, she would laugh at him".

This category often includes features such as punctuation usage, function and stop word usage, etc. Syntactic features have been found to be quite useful in many different studies analyzing web content [3],[4].

Lexical features are character/word based features, while syntactic features represent the writing style of the reviewers at the sentence level, such as occurrences of punctuations or function words.

The discussion aims to reveal how texts intended to be read aloud are more likely to be punctuated for prosody, while texts that will remain unspoken are likely to be punctuated for grammar, but that punctuation realises the function of information structure in written texts by exploiting the potential of the mode of language and maintaining a natural relationship between function and realisation.

Blood was collected via direct heart punctuation for renal function assay.

The first to be used (beginning in the 1920s) was a variation of the Baudot Code, in which letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and keyboard functions were represented by 32 combinations of 5 "on" and "off" pulses.

Lynne Truss's book is (stay with this sentence, and remember the function of punctuation is to 'tango the reader into the pauses, inflections, continuities and connections that the spoken word would convey') as much an argument for clear thinking as it is a pedantic defence of obsolete conventions of written language.

Syntactic features try to "represent the writing style of the reviewer" and include features like the amount of punctuation or number of function words such as "a", "the", and "of".