test 7&8 Flashcards
(36 cards)
What we know Modern English dates back to…
1500
between 1400 and 1600 so many changes occurred in the
vowels
of English that this time period been call the
Great Vowel Shift
Terminal punctuation there are three marks of punctuation….
Period, exclamation point, and question mark
In the text of Scripture, the period has one use:…
it ends a sentence
The ellipsis is a means by which we indicate omitted
words in a quotation….
three periods are used to form the ellipsis
when omitting elements from quoted material, we should select units of expression:…
whole phrases, entire subordinate clauses, etc.
when leave off one more paragraphs from essay or one more lines or stanzas of poetry from a poem…
we use a full line of periods to show that major have been omitted.
sentences: the primary use of the period in English is
to mark the end…
the end of the sentence
The sentence may be contained within…..
one verse or cover several verses.
The exclamation point represents strong….
emotion
Three uses exclamation…
- after a strong interjection,
- after word, phrases or clause of high emotion.
- At the close of an exclamatory.
In Isaiah 14:12 the exclamation point is placed at the close…..
each exclamatory statement
In rev. 18:10 the emotion point is overwhelms the…
expression
Only one exclamation point is needed point is needed.
to…
show the emotional level.
That one exclamation point comes at the close of
the….
close of the exclamation.
The question mark is used to…
ask a question or to show doubt
Question marks are only used in scripture to …..
ask a question
The following question is outside the quotation marks
…
therefore, goes outside the closing quotation mark
The comma is the most common piece of …
punctuation in the English language.
The comma, the semicolon and colon are used within
….
a sentence to separate various elements of the sentence.
Our purpose in identifying the use of punctuation
within the scriptures is to …..
identify the structures set off by that punctuation.
Commas are used to set off …..
non- restrictive modifiers
Commas are sued to separate…
items in a series