⑴ The pause mark (,): The pause mark plays the role of dividing the parallel components in the sentence in Chinese; there is no pause mark in English, and commas are mostly used to separate the parallel components in the sentence. For example: ?
She slowly, carefully, deliberately moved the box. ?
Note: In similar situations, and can be added after the last comma, and this comma can also be omitted-- She slowly, carefully(,) and deliberately moved the box.?
⑵ Book title number (""): There is no book title number in English. Book titles and newspaper titles are in italics or underlined. Such as: ?
Hamlet / Hamlet "Hamlet" Winter's Tale / Winter's Tale "Winter's Fairy Tale"
The New York Times / The New York Times "The New York Times" ?
In addition, the names of English articles, poems, music, movies, paintings, etc. and the proper nouns of vehicles, spacecraft, etc. are also often expressed in italics. ?
⑶ Space mark (?): Chinese has a space mark, which is used in the middle of words that need to be separated, such as months and dates, transliterated first names and surnames, such as "一二?九", "AO" Delly Hepburn (name)" and so on. There is no Chinese spacer in English, so commas are often used when space is needed. ?
⑷ Emphasis marks: Sometimes Chinese use solid dots under the text to indicate words that need to be emphasized. These solid dots are emphasis marks. There is no such symbol in English. When you need to emphasize certain components, you can use various methods such as italics, certain emphatic words, special sentence patterns, punctuation pauses, etc.
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Subtle differences in punctuation between American English and British English
1. Usage of quotation marks:
① Commas and periods belonging to quotations are placed inside quotation marks in American English, but are mostly outside quotation marks in British English;
② Apply them inside quotations When quoting, in American English, double quotes are outside and single quotes are inside, while in British English, single quotes are outside and double quotes are inside.
2. Usage of colon:
① Between hours and minutes, colon is often used in American English, and period is often used in British English;
② In American English, it is used after the salutation in letters or speeches Colon, whereas in British English commas are mostly used.
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