Punctuation

标点符号

A capital letter is used:

大写字母用于：

*  to begin a sentence;

    句子的开头；

e.g.  The dictionary is heavy.

*  for the first letter or proper nouns;

    专有名词的第一字母：

e.g.  Pei Yan is staying in Taman Miharja.

*  for the pronoun ‘I’；

    人称代词“I”；

e.g.   My father and I are going to the restaurant.

A full stop is used at the end of a sentence.

句号用于句子的结尾。

e.g.   Bring your umbrella. It might rain later.

A question mark is used at the end of a question.

问号用于疑问句的结尾。

e.g.   Why are you late?

A comma is used to separate words in a list.

逗号用于分隔一系列的词语。

e.g.

I need a cardboard, a pair of scissors and a marker.

An exclamation mark is used to express strong feelings.

叹号用于表达强烈的感情。

e.g.   Ouch! That hurts!

An apostrophe is used:

撇号用于：

*  to show possession;

    显示拥有权；

    e.g.  That is the baby’s milk bottle.

*  in a short form.

    缩写。

    e.g.   She’s getting married next month.