Tegnsætning bruges til at skabe mening, klarhed og tryk i sætninger. Man bruger tegnsætning til at strukturere og organisere skriftsproget.
Du kan hurtigt se, hvorfor tegnsætning er vigtig, hvis du prøver at læse denne tekst uden nogen som helst tegnsætning:
perhaps you dont always need to use commas periods colons etc to make sentences clear when i am in a hurry tired cold lazy or angry i sometimes leave out punctuation marks grammar is stupid i can write without it and dont need it my uncle Harry once said he was not very clever and i never understood a word he wrote to me i think ill learn some punctuation not too much enough to write to Uncle Harry he needs some help
Lad os nu se, hvor stor en forskel tegnsætning gør!
Perhaps you don't always need to use commas, periods, colons etc. to make sentences clear. When I am in a hurry, tired, cold, lazy, or angry I sometimes leave out punctuation marks. "Grammar is stupid! I can write without it and don't need it," my uncle Harry once said. He was not very clever, and I never understood a word he wrote to me. I think I'll learn some punctuation - not too much, enough to write to Uncle Harry. He needs some help!
Brug disse sider om tegnsætning til at lære, hvordan du kan gøre dit engelsk mere tydeligt og bedre struktureret.
Tegnsætningsregler på engelsk
- punktum (period) (eller full stop på britisk engelsk)
- komma (comma)
- udråbstegn (exclamation mark)
- spørgsmålstegn (question mark)
- kolon (colon)
- semikolon (semicolon)
- anførselstegn (quotation mark)
- apostrof (apostrophe)
- bindestreg og tankestreg (hyphen and dash)
- parentes (parentheses and brackets)