英语连字符已用于将短语甚至句子粘连成词;英语撤号无论是用作省字符号或所有格符号,在当代英语里也都更加普遍、更加讲究实效。在句子、语篇层面上考察标点的语法意义,如与同样用作衔接手段的连词作比较研究,于阅读理解和写作更有实际意义。标点与词汇、句型的有机组合,提示语言的正式程度,不同标点的使用频率往往表现出作家的个性特征。 English hyphens have been used to glue phrases and even sentences into words; English withdrawal has become more common and effective in contemporary English, either as provincial or universal symbols. In the sentence, the discourse examines the grammatical meanings of punctuation, as compared with the conjunctions which are also used as concatenation means, and has more practical significance in reading comprehension and writing. Punctuation and vocabulary, the organic combination of sentence patterns, suggesting that the formal language level, the frequency of use of different punctuation often shows the writer’s personality characteristics.