<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><strong><span>1- Punctuation</span><span><p></p></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><strong><span><p></p></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span><span>-<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr"><u><span>Full stop</span></u><span>: no space before and <strong>two spaces</strong> after.<p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span><span>-<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr"><u><span>Comma</span></u><span>: no space before and one space after. Commas are used only between clauses of the same sentence, where the meaning is clear and there are up to three clauses. In Arabic, sentences can have up to ten clauses. When translating, you must split up the Arabic sentence into many smaller English ones. <p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span><span>-<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr"><u><span>Parenthesis</span></u><span>: one space before opening the parenthesis and no space after it.<span> </span>No space before closing the parenthesis and once space after it.<p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in" align="left"><em><span>Example:</span></em><span> (I need to show you something), can you see? <p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in" align="left"><span>The same applies to single quotations and double quotations.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in" align="left"><span><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span><span>-<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr"><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><u><span>Colon</span></u></place></city><span>: A colon is used when listing items or introducing what follows.<p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in" align="left"><span><span></span><em>Examples:<p></p></em></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 63pt; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span style="font-family: symbol"><span>·<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr"><span>The list of appropriate punctuation marks includes the following: comma, colon, semi-colon, question mark, exclamation point, and period.<p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 63pt; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span style="font-family: symbol"><span>·<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr"><span>There is one thing that I ask of you: to read the glossary carefully!<p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span><span>-<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr"><u><span>Semicolon</span></u><span>:<p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span><span>-<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr">It binds two sentences more closely than they would be if separated by a full stop or period. It often replaces a conjunction such as and or but<span>.<p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span><span>-<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr">It is used as a stronger division than a comma, to make meaning clear in a sentence where commas are already being used for other purposes. A common example of this use is to separate the items of a list when some of the items themselves contain commas.<span><p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in" align="left"><em><span>Examples</span></em><span>:<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span style="font-family: symbol"><span>·<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr">I am alone; my wife had to leave.<span><p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span style="font-family: symbol"><span>·<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr">I traveled to <city w:st="on">London</city>, <country-region w:st="on">England</country-region>; <city w:st="on">Tijuana</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Mexico</country-region>; and <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Reykjavík</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Iceland</country-region></place>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span style="font-family: symbol"><span>·<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr">Lisa scored 2,845,770 points; Marcia, 2,312,860; and Jeff, 1,726,640.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><p></p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span><span>-<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr"><u><span>Double quotation marks</span></u><span>: Before opening double quotation marks <strong>please use a comma (,) and not a colon (
</strong>.<span> </span>For example, “Like I told you.”<p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" align="left">undefined<span style="color: black"><span>-<span style="font-family: " normal;?="" font-stretch:="" none;="" font-size-adjust:="" normal;="" line-height:="" 7pt;="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" font-variant:="" font-style:="" roman?;="" new="" times=""> </span></span></span>undefined<span dir="ltr"><u><span>Long quotations</span></u><span>: <span style="color: black">When you break a long quote into separate paragraphs, put quotation marks <strong>at the beginning of each paragraph</strong>, </span>and <strong>closing</strong> quotation marks <strong>only</strong> on the last paragraph.<span style="color: black"><p></p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in" align="left"><em><span style="color: black">Example:</span></em><span style="color: black"><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in" align="left"><span style="color: black">In “Atomic War or Peace,” Albert Einstein wrote: </span><strong><u><span style="color: red">“</span></u></strong><span style="color: black">The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in" align="left"><span style="color: black">more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. </span><strong><u><span style="color: red">“</span></u></strong><span style="color: black">One could say that it has affected us quantitatively, not qualitatively. As long as<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in" align="left"><span style="color: black">there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. </span><strong><u><span style="color: red">“</span></u></strong><span style="color: black">That is not an attempt to say when it will come, but only that it is sure to come.<span> </span><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in" align="left"><span style="color: black">That was true before the atomic bomb was made. What has been changed is the<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: 150%" align="left"><span style="color: black">destructiveness of war.</span><strong><u><span style="color: red">”</span></u></strong><span style="color: black"> <p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span><p></p></span></p>

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