COM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sentence Clause Structure, Signify, Dash

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Communications
• Course: COM 101
• Professor: R.Terry

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Question mark & exclamation points: a question mark is used to mark the end of a sentence that asks a direct question (generally, a question that expects an answer, rhetorical questions don"t always need them, ex. Is there a reason to bring that much money with us: an exclamation point is used to mark the end of a sentence that expresses a strong feeling, typically surprise, joy, or anger, ex. I want you to leave now and never come back: ex. Quotation marks: quotation marks have 2 basic functions, they are used to set off direct quotations (exact renderings of someone"s spoken or written words, ex. I think your new car was a good purchase, phillip remarked to. On page four of the article, the author described the beauty of the late afternoon, in the small town that he had studied: ex.