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Punctuation is a set of characters that will fit and clear the meaning of the text. The word “punctuation” comes from the medieval Latin word for “pūnctuātiōn”, which means the trade marks or trade marks.
The purpose of punctuation is to explain the meaning of the text, by combining or separating the words, phrases, or sentences. For example, in the sentence “Yesterday’s rain, fog, and still in the frost and mist. But what’s fascinating everyone else is early in the year, Fiona McLeod), connectives are to be used for the separation of complex words, while the commas are used to separate words in the sentence.