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

点符和其他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.

有趣的是电影拍摄结束以后，那些熟知小说及电影的每一个细节的孩子们当他们看到罗比时，都说，他没电影里那么高。

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点符的难题。

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、数字和点符才会显露出来。

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

我们用这些术语来命名我们的点符。尽管这些术语的本意是指停顿而非点本身？

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、冒和逗之间的区别，以及圆括和方括之间的区别。

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

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

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

点符小的机器人有一天会被用来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 出现之前，表情符可以让你通过使用点符的组合来表达你的感受。

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

想说服别人，你得先让别人明白你的意思。这些小的点符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.

我们今天讲的最后一个是撇。

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，我们将声读出点符，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点符之一。

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记， 不 - 点符。

So there are four reference points for every punctuation mark.

因此，每种点符都有四个参考依据。

[Voiceover] So this is a superhero punctuation mark.

- [画外音] 所以这是一个超级英雄点符。

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

问学生这两个句子结尾的点符是什麽。

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.

破折是一种点符，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。