{"id":3734,"date":"2012-02-29T14:04:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T06:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2012-02-29T14:04:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T06:04:49","slug":"5-complicated-punctuation-marks-explained-in-one-simple-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/5-complicated-punctuation-marks-explained-in-one-simple-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Complicated Punctuation Marks Explained in One Simple Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tPunctuation marks are pretty complicated and getting your head around them won&#8217;t happen overnight. One of the most common uses of many punctuation marks is to give the reader an indication of when they should pause or take a breath. However, such pauses need to be managed carefully: you certainly do not want to leave your reader hyperventilating after a continual stream of shallow breaths forced by over-punctuation. Nor do you want them to be gasping for breath at the end of a long sentence that completely omits any punctuation marks.<\/p>\n<p>It is also important that you use the right punctuation mark to correspond with the length of pause that the sentence requires. Here&#8217;s a quick overview of five punctuation marks that can be used to denote pauses, together with their corresponding duration of pause.<\/p>\n<p>If you think you could benefit from more help with your punctuation, take a look at our free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/what-punctuation-mark-should-i-use-a-free-printable-punctuation-cheat-sheet\/\">punctuation cheat sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Punctuation-mark-pause-lengths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3735\" style=\"border: thick solid #8f8f8f;\" title=\"Punctuation mark pause lengths\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Punctuation-mark-pause-lengths.jpg\" alt=\"5 punctuation marks and their length of pause\" width=\"504\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is useful for a quick overview of punctuation marks and their associated pauses; however, if you need more detailed information and facts, do check out our comprehensive guide to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/14-punctuation-marks\/\">14 punctuation marks<\/a>.<br \/>\nIs your punctuation letting you down? Check out our online proofreading services for a helping hand.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punctuation marks are pretty complicated and getting your head around them won&#8217;t happen overnight. One of the most common uses of many punctuation marks is to give the reader an indication of when they should pause or take a breath. However, such pauses need to be managed carefully: you certainly do not want to leave &#8230; <a title=\"5 Complicated Punctuation Marks Explained in One Simple Picture\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/5-complicated-punctuation-marks-explained-in-one-simple-picture\/\" aria-label=\"More on 5 Complicated Punctuation Marks Explained in One Simple Picture\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grammar-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}