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1、英文论文写作中标点符号应注意的事项 Punctuation Badpunctuationcanoftenmakeeventhebestwritingunintelligible.Ontheotherhand,goodpunctuationcanmakeyourmeaningclearandyourlanguageeffective.EnglishpunctuationgenerallydiffersfromthatofotherEuropeanlanguages;eventhoughthereisoftenconsiderableroomforpersonalpr
2、eferences,amasteryofthebasicrulesisindispensable. Thereisoneoverridingprinciple:tousethebareminimumofpunctuationnecessarytokeepthewritingintelligible.Thefollowinglistofrulesmakesnoclaimtoexhaustiveness. I.TheApostrophe(') 1.men's,women's,children's,people's Itiscorrecttowritethisare
3、a'sproblems,meaning"theproblemsofthisarea",andtheseareas'problems,meaning"theproblemsoftheseareas":infact,puttingapostrophesanywhereelsewouldbewrong.Butthepluralsofman,woman,andchildareexceptionstothisgeneralrule:thuswewritethemen'swives,thewomen'shusbands,thechildren'smothers,andnothin
4、gelse. Anotherimportantexceptionisthewordpeoplewhenitdenotesthepluralof"person":thuswewouldwritethesepeople'sbehavior,meaning"thebehaviorofthesepersons",butthesepeoples'behavior,meaning"thebehaviorofthesepeoples"(ethnicgroups). Otherirregularpluralsaretreatedinthesamewayasmen,women,ch
5、ildren,andpeople:aboveallthepluralsofox,sheep,gooseandmice(theoxen'spasture,thesheep'swool,thegeese'sflight,themice'stails). 2.AmistakethatisfrequentamongforeignlearnersofEnglishistowriteaphrasesuchas"thesearea'sproblems",whenwhatthepersonactuallymeansistheseproblemsofthearea.3.Itisbes
6、ttousetheapostrophewhenyouwanttoshowthepluralofsomethingwhichcannotnormallybeplural: Thepasttenseofoccurisspeltwithtwor's. Iaccepttheideainprinciple,buttherearealotofif’s. 4.Stringsofapostrophesaretobeavoided.Thusoneshouldwritethefriendsofthatman'sson,insteadof"thatman'sson'sfriends"
7、. 5.Wesayintendays'time,intwentyyears'time(weusetheapostrophe).6.Wesayeachother's,not"eachothers'"(togetoneachother'snerves). II.TheColon(:)1.Quotations Thecolonisoftenusedtointroducequotations: ToquoteNietzsche:"Godisdead!" Asthebard(OneofanancientCelticorderofminstrelpoe
