{"id":807,"date":"2016-07-15T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level3-english\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=807"},"modified":"2016-10-06T21:05:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:05:51","slug":"outcome-punctuation","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/chapter\/outcome-punctuation\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Punctuation","rendered":"Outcome: Punctuation"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Critique the use of common punctuation marks.<\/h2>\r\nNow that we've learned about the different types of words, it's time to learn punctuation. These little marks can often be the cause of\u00a0a lot of heartaches and headaches.\u00a0Errors in punctuation can often have unintended meanings. For example consider the difference the comma makes in these two sentences:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Let's eat, Grandpa.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Let's eat Grandpa.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nHowever, punctuation doesn't exist simply to cause problems; in fact, it was created to help communication. These marks were invented to guide readers through passages\u2014to let them know how and where words\u00a0relate to each other. When you learn the rules of punctuation, you equip yourself with an extensive toolset so you can better craft language to communicate the exact message you want.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1333\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2016\/07\/28210212\/allpunctuation.jpg\" alt=\"a collection of different punctuation marks, including parentheses, brackets, an exclamation point, an apostrophe, quotation marks, and a period.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"507\" \/>\r\n\r\nAs we\u00a0mentioned at the beginning of this module, different style guides have slightly different rules for grammar. This is especially true when it comes to punctuation. This outcome will cover the MLA rules for punctuation, but we\u2019ll also make note of rules from other styles when they\u2019re significantly different.\r\n<h2>What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Critique the use of end punctuation: periods, question marks, exclamation marks<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Critique the use of commas<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Critique the use of semicolons and\u00a0colons<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Critique the use of hyphens and dashes<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Critique the use of apostrophes and\u00a0quotation marks<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Critique the use of brackets, parentheses, and\u00a0ellipses<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h2>Critique the use of common punctuation marks.<\/h2>\n<p>Now that we&#8217;ve learned about the different types of words, it&#8217;s time to learn punctuation. These little marks can often be the cause of\u00a0a lot of heartaches and headaches.\u00a0Errors in punctuation can often have unintended meanings. For example consider the difference the comma makes in these two sentences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let&#8217;s eat, Grandpa.<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s eat Grandpa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, punctuation doesn&#8217;t exist simply to cause problems; in fact, it was created to help communication. These marks were invented to guide readers through passages\u2014to let them know how and where words\u00a0relate to each other. When you learn the rules of punctuation, you equip yourself with an extensive toolset so you can better craft language to communicate the exact message you want.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1333\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2016\/07\/28210212\/allpunctuation.jpg\" alt=\"a collection of different punctuation marks, including parentheses, brackets, an exclamation point, an apostrophe, quotation marks, and a period.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"507\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we\u00a0mentioned at the beginning of this module, different style guides have slightly different rules for grammar. This is especially true when it comes to punctuation. This outcome will cover the MLA rules for punctuation, but we\u2019ll also make note of rules from other styles when they\u2019re significantly different.<\/p>\n<h2>What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Critique the use of end punctuation: periods, question marks, exclamation marks<\/li>\n<li>Critique the use of commas<\/li>\n<li>Critique the use of semicolons and\u00a0colons<\/li>\n<li>Critique the use of hyphens and dashes<\/li>\n<li>Critique the use of apostrophes and\u00a0quotation marks<\/li>\n<li>Critique the use of brackets, parentheses, and\u00a0ellipses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-807\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Outcome: Punctuation. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Outcome: Punctuation\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-807","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1852,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/807\/revisions\/1815"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1852"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/807\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-engcomp1-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}