Elective course in the Russian language "secrets of punctuation."

What is the meaning of G.G. Granik’s statement: “Punctuation marks, like words, speak”? Punctuation marks can convey many shades of meaning. Each punctuation mark in a sentence has eigenvalue. Let's give examples from the text.

First, at the end of sentence 17 we see an exclamation mark: “Oh, what a torment that was!” This punctuation mark expresses the determination and strength of character of the main character. It was difficult for the boy to understand the theory of aircraft construction, but he showed patience and restraint.

Secondly, in sentence 33 the comma is isolated introductory word"So". The punctuation mark highlights a word that indicates a logical conclusion from the boy's previous thoughts.

Thus, the above examples prove the indisputability of the statement of the Russian linguist G.G. Granik.

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Source(option 1 from the collection edited by I.P. Tsybulko) :*

(1) Even in those years when I became interested in Amundsen, a simple thought occurred to me. (2) Here it is: by plane, Amundsen would have reached the South Pole seven times faster. (3) With what difficulty he moved day after day through the endless snowy desert! (4) He walked for two months following the dogs, who eventually ate each other. (5) And by plane he could fly to the South Pole in a day. (6) He would not have enough friends and acquaintances to name all the mountain peaks, glaciers and plateaus that he would discover on this flight.
(7) Every day I made huge extracts from my polar travels. (8) I cut out notes from newspapers about the first flights to the north and pasted them into an old office book. (9) On the first page of this book it was written: “Forward” is the name of his ship.” (10) “Forward,” he says and really strives forward. (11) Nansen on Amundsen.” (12) This was my motto. (13) I mentally flew past Scott, Shackleton, and Robert Peary on the plane. (14) Along all routes. (15) And since I had an airplane at my disposal, it was necessary to take care of its design.
(16) According to the third point of my rules: “What is decided, do it,” I read “The Theory of Aircraft Engineering.” (17) Oh, what kind of torment that was! (18) But everything that I didn’t understand, I learned by heart just in case.
(19) Every day I disassembled my imaginary plane. (20) I studied its motor and propeller. (21) I equipped it with the latest devices. (22) I knew him like the back of my hand. (23) There was only one thing I didn’t know yet: how to fly it. (24) But this is exactly what I wanted to learn.
(25) My decision was a secret to everyone. (26) At school they thought that I was throwing myself away, but I didn’t want them to say about my aviation: “(27) A new hobby.” (28) It was not a hobby. (29) It seemed to me that I had long ago decided to become a pilot, back in Ensk, on that day when Petka and I lay in the cathedral garden, with our arms outstretched in a cross, and tried to see the moon and stars during the day, when a gray plane that looked like a winged fish easily walked around the clouds and disappeared on the other side of the Sand. (30) Of course, it only seemed to me. (31) But it’s not for nothing that I remember this plane so much. (32) It must have been then that I first thought about what now occupied all my thoughts.
(32) So, I hid my secret from everyone.
(34) Every morning I did gymnastics according to the Anokhin system and cold rubbing according to the Muller system. (35) I felt my muscles and thought: “(36) What if they don’t accept me?” (37) I checked my eyes, ears, heart. (38) The school doctor said that I was healthy. (39) But health varies - after all, he didn’t know that I was going to flight school. (40) What if I’m nervous? (41) What if there’s something else? (42) Growth! (43) Damn growth! (44) Over the past year, I have grown only one and a half centimeters.
“(45) They will accept,” I answered decisively.

One witty writer said that there are fifty ways to say the word YES and fifty ways to say the word NO, but in order to write these words there is only one way.

Can we agree with this remark? Perhaps it is possible, but still...

Indeed, there are a great many ways to pronounce a word, even the shortest one. The NO we say can be calm or excited, angry, happy or sad. Your voice may sound soft or firm. And of course, you can’t always convey this when recording. And a word is written in only one way - with its constituent letters. But... Here is the same word written down several times: YES, YES! YES? YES?! YES... YES.

Say these words in your mind, mentally listen to their sound. It is unlikely that they will sound the same to you.

It is clear to you that YES with a period is a calm YES, but this calmness can be courageous, decisive or bitter. YES with a question mark is YES, expressing a question, doubt, bewilderment, or a request to allow something. YES with question and exclamation marks - strong bewilderment (in this case YES?! Can be translated as REALLY?), with exclamation - strong feeling(maybe joy or anger). With an ellipsis - this is uncertainty, confusion, reflections that are still difficult to put into words, grief, disappointment. The comma after YES seems to indicate: now it will be said about what exactly is confirmed by this YES; The colon is a signal that an explanation will follow as to why YES is said.

Words written down on paper cannot express everything that is contained in living human speech, which is conveyed by intonation, rate of speech, gestures and facial expressions. However, the writer and reader have at their disposal not only words, but also additional funds- punctuation marks. They help to express the meaning more fully and accurately writing. “Signs are placed according to the power of the mind,” wrote the founder of Russian grammar M.V. Lomonosov.

With the help of punctuation marks, the written word is perceived and mentally pronounced by the reader, if not 50 or 500 ways, then at least not in one, but in several. Thus, punctuation marks make it possible to say much more in writing than can be written down in letters. They help express the different meanings of words and the feelings that color them. Signs, like words, speak, and we read them along with the words. And sometimes...even instead of words

The fact of such “wordless” correspondence is known. The French writer Victor Hugo, having completed the novel Les Misérables, sent the book manuscript to the publisher. I attached a letter to the manuscript, which did not contain a single word, but only the sign “?”. The publisher also responded with a letter without words: “!”

How enormous the semantic and emotional content of these ultra-short letters is! V. Hugo's letter contains troubling questions(“Well, how? Did you like it? Will it be possible to publish it?”), and subtle humor, allowing the writer to endure the state of anxious anticipation with dignity. The publisher’s response might be something like this: “Wonderful! Fabulous! This is the best manuscript I have ever held in my hands! I will publish it immediately!”

And he expressed this whole range of thoughts and feelings with one short “!”, colored at the same time by the same humor with which the author of “Les Miserables” composed his letter.

You do roughly the same thing when, wanting to praise someone and make it fun, you squeeze your hand and raise it up thumb and say “Wow!” The little epistolary joke played by V. Hugo and his publisher turned out to be successful because both participants in the correspondence knew how not only to spell, but also to “read,” that is, to understand punctuation marks well.

Assignments to the text:

1. Carefully read an excerpt from the book “Secrets of Punctuation” (Granik G.G., Bondarenko S.M. Secrets of Punctuation. - M.: Education, 1986).

2.Choose as many titles as possible for the story that reflect its content. Titles can be strict, logical, or figurative, bright, emotional.

3.Write down the selected headings.

4. Shorten the story - convey the content as concisely as possible.

5.Copy out the nouns from the text and indicate their category.

6.Indicate the lexical and morphological features of this text, determine its style and genre.

7.Pay attention to the construction of sentences in the text. Produce parsing several sentences to choose from, noting the features of their construction.

Task 1.Find speech errors. Which ones are associated with a lack of speech accuracy? By using explanatory dictionary establish the cause and nature of the violation that occurred (misunderstanding lexical meaning words, confusion of paronyms, violation lexical compatibility etc.). Write down the corrected sentences.

1. The boy was wearing a tsigeyka. 2. The goalkeeper is wearing a football uniform. 3. There are columns of slot machines in the foyer, posters and paintings of popular artists hang on the walls. 4. He is kind but excitable. 5. Everyone demands betrayal in better side. 6. Throughout his work as emperor, Peter the Great changes. 7. What is being done to increase the pace? 8. I stand and look at a transparent hazel leaf. How did he survive after such heavy frost and snow? 9. The US presidential candidate held meetings with voters (radio). 10. Thanks to mistakes made when drawing up the program, the result was negative. 11. Two days later we went back to the concert. 12. This is the kind of doll the wooden craftsman made. 13. Let's fast forward to the 16th century, when there were no writers in Russia yet, but only scribes who copied by hand. 14. Katya also had bad character traits that gave her an embarrassed look. 15. What has changed now, why are these and other books not being bought up with the same greed, why do numerous buyers feel so at ease in bookstores? (from newspapers). 16. Yes, there are fewer people in bookstores, reading rooms, and libraries (from newspapers). 17. Entrepreneurs’ calls for cooperation were not heard (from newspapers). 18. Important events took place on the territory of the adjacent state (radio). 19. The statistician made accurate calculations and told us the result. 20. Not knowing how else to earn his daily bread, he was nevertheless forced to return to his previous occupation (from newspapers). 21. The water will dry up and there will be excellent ice. 22. Once while hunting I came across such a case. 23. I lie down on the well and see my image in the black water. 24. The month of August, rich in mushrooms and berries, has arrived. 25. The sun is shining a little in the sky. 26. A girl is depicted in bright font in the foreground. 27. The guys made a model and decided to explore it themselves. 28. The famous coach was drawn to his native land (from newspapers). 29. On New Year's Eve, we wished each other happiness, good luck, bright, impressionable events (from newspapers). 30. The meaning of this poem is very deep. 31. But still, in the overwhelming majority of cases, a person emerges from the most severe and prolonged depression and leads a full life (from newspapers). 32. He was a hidden man. 33. The work is full of main characters. 34. Now I can say for sure that I have gained confidence in my legal choice of profession.

Task 2. Mark the pleonasms. Please indicate the corrected version:

1. Joint cooperation between Kazakh and Chinese scientists will become another link in strengthening friendly ties.

2. A person who combines study, work and social life into one whole values ​​his time more.

3. In his autobiography, the scientist wrote about his interesting trips to different countries.

4.Science is continuously mastering the hidden secrets of nature.

5.Every minute of working time of the day is accounted for by him.

6.The artist promised to bring test drawings in three different versions.

7. At the meeting, a wide range of activities to serve visitors was developed.

Task 3. Correct tautological combinations of words.

1. The story tells about the difficult fate of a boy.

2. As one might expect, there were no disagreements during the discussion.

3. The disadvantages of the work include the insufficient development of individual issues.

4. In response to his actions, we received an insulting response.

5.Love of music united over 200 people.

6.You should pay attention to the following features of the language of the work.

Task 4. From the names of settlements, localities, countries, form the names of their inhabitants in the singular, masculine and plural.

15.1 Write an essay-reasoning, revealing the meaning of the statement by the famous Russian linguist Henrietta Grigorievna Granik: “The writer and the reader have punctuation marks at their disposal. They allow us to more fully and accurately express the meaning of written speech.”

To convey his thoughts, the writer uses different means. And one of them is punctuation marks. They help to understand the connections between the elements of the message, as well as intonation, and therefore the emotions of the author or characters in the book.

So in the excerpt from V. Kaverin’s novel “Two Captains,” which is given in the assignment, we see how punctuation helps us in understanding the author’s intent.

For example, numerous exclamatory sentences (3, 9, 13 and others) convey emotional state Katya, her conflicting feelings, which she hides because of her usual proud and unapproachable demeanor. These feelings are torn from her heart, Katya wants to express everything that is in her soul, but she cannot, her character does not allow her. And only an exclamation mark next to her monosyllabic “Yes!” speaks of how many feelings are behind a short word.

Or the dash in sentences 30, 34, 39. They all seem to be out of place, but perfectly convey the intonation of the speaker. In Korablev’s speech, these dashes mean an emphasized pause, a special drawing of Katya’s attention to an important characteristic of Sanya and herself. And in the girl’s reasoning, this pause, indicated by a dash, means surprise that she suddenly realized that Ivan Pavlovich was right, although before his words seemed simply funny to her.

Punctuation marks, like everything in work of art, are subordinated to one goal - to let us understand the author’s thoughts and the experiences of the book’s hero.

15.2. Write an argumentative essay. Explain how you understand the meaning of the last sentences of the text: “Can’t you arrange for this to not happen again? His face became embarrassed, and he said mockingly: “Yes!” There won't be any more".

In an excerpt from the novel by V.A. Kaverin tells how the girl Katya sees off her beloved Sanya. He goes on flights to the Far North, and these flights can be very dangerous. Sanya himself once told his girlfriend about one of the dangerous flights, during which there was a severe snowstorm and Sanya barely survived (47, 48). Listening to the story of her beloved, Katya cannot imagine that such a danger could touch Sanya; it seems to her that he is talking about someone else, and not about himself: “... and I caught myself with a very strange feeling: I was listening to him , as if he was talking about someone else."

This suggests that loving heart The girls could not and did not want to realize that something bad could happen to a loved one. That’s why Katya says these words: “Can’t you arrange for this to not happen again? His face became embarrassed and he said mockingly: Yes! There won't be any more." Sanya was embarrassed because he realized how dear he was to his girlfriend, he realized that she really worried about him.

Loving people always worry about each other and do not want to be separated for a long time. She talks about how much Katya doesn’t want to part with Sanya at the very beginning of the text: “Oh, how I didn’t want Sanya to leave!”

15.3 How do you understand the meaning of the word LOVE? Formulate and comment on the definition you have given. Write an essay-discussion on the topic: "Love is…", taking the definition you gave as a thesis.

Love is when you worry about your loved one, you want to always be with him, take care of him, when you sincerely wish him happiness and prosperity. For example, in an excerpt from the novel by Kaverin V.A. the girl Katya is very worried about her beloved Sanya, she doesn’t want him to leave and is worried about him, because his work involves dangerous flights in the Far North. But she loves him and therefore lets him go on these flights, realizing that he likes this work: “This was the world of his profession - the world of monotonous and dangerous flights in the Far North, children's delight in front of a new car, a world without which he could not live even a week." Katya accepts Sanya with this profession, realizing that this work makes him happy.

In life you can also find many examples of such love. For example, if you think about astronauts, pilots, and military personnel who go to fight in hot spots. Women who love them also always worry about their men, but nevertheless remain with them, understanding the importance and danger of their profession. They love their men for honor, for courage, for courage, realizing that their profession is part of their life, part of themselves. And women let their loved ones go, asking them to take care of themselves and be more careful. Making them promise to return home.

And they come back. Sorry, not all. And not always.

Essay assignments.

About the path of life.

The path of life, long, difficult, with many sorrows and sufferings, a person does not pass, but accomplishes, accomplishes. It only seems: here is the road, here is the destiny, and a person walks along his destiny-road, fulfilling his daily tasks and tasks. No, it’s not like that: the path of life is, of course, a road stretching not across a field, but in time, but the path of life is both a house, a business, and a kind of construction that we have to complete by an unknown date .

Please imagine life as a construction project, and you will understand what exactly each of us is building, what we have to accomplish.

Yes, yourself!

Each of us builds ourselves, so that we can live in ourselves. Every day I build a house that is always with me. A house from which you will not leave, even if you go to visit or to a disco. You can't escape from it

and you can’t exchange it for another.

This is where people differ: some simply wander along life path, while others build themselves, trying to build a more beautiful and reliable life-home.

(S. Soloveichik) 159 words

ü - What is included in the title of the text - the topic or the main thought (idea) of the text?

ü - Underline the key words in the text.

ü - Which paragraph contains the main idea (idea) of the text?

through his speech tissue." Use metaphors, synonyms and antonyms from this text to make your argument.

Material about syntax

Read the text by G. Granik and S. Bondarenko about punctuation marks.

The remarkable English playwright Bernard Shaw, in the preface to a collection of his plays, said that there are fifty ways to say the word yes and five hundred ways to say the word no, and in order to write these

words, there is only one way.

Words written down on paper cannot express everything that is contained in living speech, which is conveyed by intonation, pauses, rate of speech, gestures and facial expressions. However, the writer and reader have at their disposal

not only words, but also additional means - punctuation marks. Punctuation marks are not something external, extraneous to the living tissue of the language: they themselves, as it were, “grow” out of the language, out of the need to express the meaning they convey as fully and accurately as possible in written speech.

Punctuation marks give us the opportunity to say much more in writing than can be written down in letters. They help us express various “meanings and the feelings that color them. Signs, like words, speak, and we read them along with words. And sometimes... even instead of words.

The fact of such “wordless” correspondence is known. French writer Victor Hugo, having finished the novel Les Miserables, sent the book manuscript to the publisher. He attached a letter to the manuscript, which did not contain a single word, but only the sign: “?” The publisher also responded with a wordless letter: “!”

How enormous the semantic and emotional content of these ultra-short letters is! Victor Hugo's letter contains both disturbing questions (How's it going? Did you like it? Will it be possible to publish it?), and subtle humor, allowing the writer to endure the state of anxious expectation with dignity. The publisher's response might go something like this:

Amazing! Fabulous! This is the best manuscript I have ever held in my hands!

The little epistolary joke played by Victor Hugo and his publisher turned out to be successful because both participants in the correspondence knew how not only to spell, but also to “read,” that is, to understand punctuation marks well.

With the help of signs, you can express not only this or that meaning, but also the attitude of the writer to what is being discussed. So, if you write about someone that he is smart, highlighting this word in quotation marks, it immediately becomes clear that you are not confident in high mental abilities this person.

These examples show how enriching writing can be good knowledge punctuation.

ü - Underline the sentences in the text in which the authors write about the role of punctuation marks.

ü - Formulate and write down a thesis that can be argued by the “wordless” correspondence of V. Hugo

ü with the publisher.

ü - Write down the word Yes with various punctuation marks. What do they express?

ü Underline the sentences in the text that talk about the role of punctuation marks and which can be taken as a topic-quote for the essay-reasoning C2. What arguments can be used to support them?

ü How can one justify the words of S. Lvova that “Punctuation marks have their own specific purpose in written speech. Like every note, a punctuation mark has its own specific place in the writing system, and has a unique failure”? Give examples from the text of punctuation marks that have “their own unique character.” Can we say that the unique “character” of punctuation marks lies in their function?

Related information.

TO THE READERS

The most important chapter of the book is “Although “the path is both far and long.” This is the path from knowing the rule to correctly placing the sign.
Many of you have already seen that neither persistent repetition of rules nor endless rewriting guarantees against mistakes. And in order for the hand to put the right sign in the right place, as if by itself, so that literacy “grows to the tip of the pen,” the brain must work accurately and quickly operating mechanism. How to make this mechanism work is what the chapter “Although “the path is both long and far”” tells. Whether the mechanism will work depends primarily on you: when completing tasks, learn to control it.
You will perform some tasks “in your head.” Most require real punctuation. To do this, you don’t have to copy everything into a notebook: get yourself a transparent film, put it on the text with the task and place signs.
The work doesn't end with punctuation marks. It needs to be checked. Our book gives you the opportunity to learn how to test yourself. There are answers for this, which are located several pages after each task under the heading “Test yourself.”
For those preparing for higher education, we advise you not to put off reading the book until the last weeks before exams. Study it as responsibly as you would study with an individual tutor, to whom you carefully come for lessons over a long period of time.
We wish you success in unlocking the secrets of punctuation!

A WORD OF PRAISE FOR PUNCTION MARKS

The remarkable English playwright Bernard Shaw, in the preface to a collection of his plays, said that there are fifty ways to say the word yes and five hundred ways to say the word no, but in order to write these words there is only one way.
Can we agree with this remark? Perhaps it is possible, but still...
Indeed, there are a great many ways to pronounce a word, even the shortest one. The no you say can be calm or threatening, malicious or sad, joyful or sorrowful. Your voice may sound soft or firm. And all this, of course, cannot be conveyed when recording. And a word is written in only one way - with its constituent letters. But... Here is the same word written several times: Yes. Yes? Yes?! Yes... Yes, Yes:.
Say these words in your mind, mentally listen to their sound. It is unlikely that they will sound the same to you.
It is clear to you that yes with a period is a calm yes, but this calmness can be courageous, decisive or bitter. Yes with a question mark - yes, expressing a question, doubt, bewilderment or a request to allow something. Yes with a question and exclamation mark- strong bewilderment (in this case, yes?! can be “translated” as “really?”), with an exclamation - a strong feeling (maybe joy or anger). With an ellipsis - this is uncertainty, confusion, reflections that are still difficult to put into words, grief, disappointment. The comma after yes indicates: now it will be said about what exactly is confirmed by this yes, the colon is a signal that an explanation will follow as to why yes is said.
Words written down on paper cannot express everything that is contained in living speech, which is conveyed by intonation, pauses, rate of speech, gestures and facial expressions. However, the writer and reader have at their disposal not only words, but also additional means - punctuation marks.
Punctuation marks are not something external, extraneous to the living tissue of the language: they themselves, as it were, “grow” out of the language, out of the need to express the meaning they convey as fully and accurately as possible in written speech.
The idea that the placement of punctuation marks is dictated by the meaning of the text was first expressed by the founder of Russian grammar M.V. Lomonosov, who wrote that “signs are placed according to the power of reason.”
With the help of punctuation marks, the written word is perceived and mentally pronounced by the reader, if not in fifty or five hundred ways, then, in any case, not in one, but in several. Thus, punctuation marks make it possible to say much more in writing than can be written down in letters. They help express different meanings and the feelings that color them. Signs, like words, speak, and we read them along with the words. And sometimes... even instead of words.
The fact of such “wordless” correspondence is known. French writer Victor Hugo, having completed the novel Les Misérables, sent the book manuscript to the publisher. He attached a letter to the manuscript, which did not contain a single word, but only the sign: “?” The publisher also responded with a wordless letter: “!”
How enormous the semantic and emotional content of these ultra-short letters is! Victor Hugo's letter contains both disturbing questions (Well, did you like it? Will it be possible to publish it?), and subtle humor, allowing the writer to endure the state of anxious expectation with dignity. The publisher's response might go something like this:
Amazing! Fabulous! This is the best manuscript I have ever held in my hands! I will publish it immediately! Or maybe even something like this: Great! This will bring me a fair amount of income! With the help of such a book, I will squeeze out my competitors in the book market!
And he expressed this whole range of thoughts and feelings with one short “!”, colored at the same time by the same humor with which the author of “Les Miserables” composed his letter. You do roughly the same thing when, wanting to praise someone and do it cheerfully, you raise your thumb up and say: “Wow!”
The little epistolary joke played by Victor Hugo and his publisher turned out to be successful because both participants in the correspondence knew how not only to spell, but also to “read,” that is, to understand punctuation marks well.
With the help of signs, you can express not only this or that meaning, but also the attitude of the writer to what is being written about. we're talking about. So, if you write about someone that he is smart, highlighting this word in quotation marks, it immediately becomes clear that you are not confident in the high mental abilities of this person.
These examples show how a good knowledge of punctuation enriches the written language.
Written speech without punctuation marks or when they are used incorrectly, incompletely, or inaccurately is very difficult to understand. At the beginning of the last century, such difficulties arose quite often, since knowledge of punctuation rules was not considered mandatory and most writers put signs at their own discretion. Only publishing workers were experts in punctuation, and they had to suffer a lot with the manuscripts of even the most educated authors. Thus, one of the publishers wrote to Herzen that his punctuation marks were “pure markings” and only made reading more difficult.
If a sign is omitted or placed incorrectly, it can lead to serious distortions in meaning. Two well-known “punctuation jokes” tell of such distortions. The first of them tells about a traveler who, in a moment of danger, prayed to God and promised, in case of salvation, “to erect a golden statue holding a pike.” However, when the danger had passed, the traveler did not want to fork out for a gold statue, and he gave the order: “Place a statue holding a golden pike.” Thus, without breaking his promise with a single word, he greatly reduced his expenses by moving the comma.
Another “punctuation joke” says that a person’s life turns out to depend on where the comma is placed in the sentence: “Execute, cannot be pardoned” or “Execute cannot be, pardoned.” Now imagine that in such an order a punctuation mark is accidentally or deliberately omitted. Then this order becomes ambiguous and the one who receives it will not know what he should do. Most likely, he will try to guess what those who gave the order really wanted. This is exactly the situation described in historical novel M. Druon "The French She-Wolf". It tells how queen of england Isabella and her lover Lord Mortimer dethroned King Edward II, Queen Isabella's unloved husband. He was imprisoned in a fortress and forced to abdicate the throne in favor of an heir. However, there was a danger that a conspiracy would arise to free the king and start a rebellion. Lord Mortimer and Queen Isabella would have been calmer if Edward II had not been alive. But no one dared to personally give the order to kill a person of royal blood: a written order could end up with the wrong people, or even serve as a weapon against the queen. Mortimer shared these doubts with his friend Bishop Orleton. “In other words, my lord,” said the bishop, “you want to send an order without sending it.” Orleton quickly solved the problem by writing one line in Latin without punctuation as an order. From a record thus drawn up, it was impossible to decide whether it was a good or bad thing to kill Edward.
“If the Lord wills,” Orleton noted, “the one who receives the letter will understand its meaning. But can anyone really be blamed for such a letter?
Thus, King Edward II became a victim of not only political, but also grammatical deceit.
And here is what K. Paustovsky said in the book “Golden Rose”.
The writer Andrei Sobol brought to the editorial office of the newspaper “Sailor” a story, interesting on the topic, but printed in confused, some kind of torn phrases. It was impossible to print it in this form, and it would be a pity to miss it. Proofreader Blagov, an experienced publishing worker, undertook to correct the story without throwing out or writing in a single word. And now the manuscript has been corrected. “I read the story and was speechless. It was transparent, flowing prose. Everything became convex and clear. Not a shadow remained of the former crumpledness and verbal confusion. At the same time, not a single word was really deleted or added......
- This is a miracle! - I said. - How did you do it?
- Yes, I just put all the punctuation marks correctly. Sobol is in complete chaos with them. I placed the dots especially carefully. And paragraphs. This is a great thing, my dear.
Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, to bring words into correct ratio and give the phrase ease and correct sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notations. They hold the text firmly and don’t let it fall apart.”
So, the ability to use punctuation marks is an integral part of mastery of written language; it is as important as the ability to express one’s thoughts in writing is generally important.
The ability to make signs is not easy, just as the whole process of expressing one’s thoughts in writing is not easy. But it is clear to you that our life today cannot even be imagined without written speech. Written speech embodies everything that life is rich in: it brings new knowledge, the experience of wisdom, and kind greetings from loved ones who are separated from us. Thanks to written speech, human experience is not lost, but accumulated and passed on from generation to generation. Otherwise, human culture could not develop.