Business English 8./ PUNCTUATION MARKS

Punctuation marks are characters which are used to divide a piece of writing into sentences. They should be used differently in the English language than in Hungarian. For example, commas don't have so strict rules in English, and exclamation marks cannot be found at the end of imperative sentences etc,
How do you call the following marks in English?

a) ellipses

b) square brackets

c) dash

d) virgule

e) comma

f) colon

g) question mark

h) exclamation point

i) quotation marks

j) period

k) parentheses

l) semicolon

Szókincs:

itt

Feladat:
Melyik írásjelre gondoltam? :-)

a) This sign is used to introduce an example or an explanation: ____________ .

b) This sign is used in writing to separate two closely related parts of a sentence: ____________ .

c) You write this mark after a sentence/ word that expresses surprise, excitement or anger: ____________ .

d) These are round brackets: ____________ .

e) You write this sign after a sentence that gathers information: ____________ .

f)  This sign is a dividing line between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate to complete the sentence: ____________ .

Megoldás:
Kép

1. j; 2. k; 3. h; 4. f; 5. l; 6. i; 7. g; 8. b; 9. c; 10. a; 11. e; 12. d
Melyik írásjelre gondoltam? 
a) colon
b) comma
c) exclamation point
d) parentheses
e) question mark
f) virgule