Punctuation marks and other things like spaces and indents help the reader understand the structure and organization of writing.

标点符号和其如空格和缩进能帮助读者理解文章的组织结构。

Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti.

双重功能之因，让人摸门不着。

What's odd is when people come off the set and kids come who know every punctuation mark in the book and the frame of the previous films and they see Robbie. He's not that big, quite frankly.

有趣的是影拍摄结束以后，那些熟知小说及影的每一个细节的孩子们当们看到罗比时，都说，影里那么高。

Even native speakers have trouble with these punctuation marks when writing English.

即使是以英语为母语的人，在写英语时也会遇到使用这些标点符号的难题。

From a distance, it could quite easily be like a print or an illustration where it's only when the viewer gradually nears closer and closer to the image that all of these individual letters, numbers and punctuation marks are revealed.

从远处看，它和普通印刷品或插图一样，只有当人们慢慢靠近图画时，这些单独的字母、数字和标点符号才会显露。

We used these terms to name our punctuation marks—although they actually refer to the clauses not to the dots themselves.

我们用这些术语命名我们的标点符号。尽管这些术语的本意是指停顿而非标点本身？

I hope you can tell me about the difference between punctuation marks such as the semicolon, the colon and the comma and between round brackets and square brackets.

我希望你能告诉我分号、冒号和逗号之间的区别，以及圆括号和方括号之间的区别。

There are still more types of punctuation to learn about, but I hope this helped you to understand how to use basic punctuation marks.

还有很多种类的标点符号需要学习，但是我希望今天的课程有帮助家理解如何使用基础的标点符号。

Robots with the size of punctuation marks can one day be used to move single cells or capture bacteria.

标点符号小的机器人有一天会被用移动单细胞或捕捉细菌。

Before emoji, emoticons had let you express how you felt by using combinations of punctuation marks.

在 emoji 现之前，表情符号可以让你通过使用标点符号的组合表达你的感受。

And to be persuasive, you need to be understood. And these little punctuation marks helped the speaker to deliver their text more effectively.

要想说服别人，你得先让别人明白你的意思。这些小的标点符号帮助说话人更有效地传递信息。

The last punctuation mark we are going to talk about today is the apostrophe.

我们今天要讲的最后一个是撇号。

When we read the examples in this lesson, we will say the punctuation marks out loud so listeners can understand where they belong.

当我们阅读这节课的例子时，我们将声读标点符号，以便听众了解它们的位置。

But first, let’s look at one of the most basic English punctuation marks.

但首先， 让我们看一下最基本的英语标点符号之一。

It's a very popular punctuation mark in universities, and academic writing, and so on.

它在学和学术写作中非常流行。

Period - we're not talking about the pronunciation mark, no - the punctuation mark either.

句点 - 我们不是在谈论发音标记， 不 - 标点符号。

So there are four reference points for every punctuation mark.

因此，每种标点符号都有四个参考依据。

[Voiceover] So this is a superhero punctuation mark.

- [画外音] 所以这是一个超级英雄标点符号。

Ask the student what punctuation mark comes at the end of both sentences.

问学生这两个句子结尾的标点符号是什麽。

A " dash" is a punctuation mark that is used in between different parts of a sentence to show either a break in thought or in the structure of the sentence.

破折号是一种标点符号，用于句子的不同部分之间，表示思维的中断或句子结构的中断。