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DEVELOPMENT,GRAMMAR,PRONUNCIATION,ENUNCIATION,  \nAND THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES  \nOF EFFECTIVE ORAL  \nEXPRESSION  \nBY  \nEsTELLE B.HUNTER,PH.B.  \nLESSON FOU RT EEN  \nTHE BETTER-SPEECH INSTITUTE  \nOF AMERICA  \n180 North Michigan Avenue,Chicago,U.S.A.  \nCONTENTS  \nPage  \nPuNCTUATION(Concluded)·.··  \nThe SemicolonConjunctive Adverbs and Semicolons  \nThe Colon  \nThe DashClassification by Punctuation  \nThe Hyphen  \nDivision of WordsCompound Words  \nQuotation Marks  \nQuotation Marks and Other Punctuation  \nThe Interrogation PointBrackets and ParenthesesThe Exclamation Point  \n.··.18  \nENUNCIATION .  .  \nEnunciation Exercise 14-A  \nEnunciation Exercise 14-B  \nEnunciation Exercise 14-C  \nEnunciation Exercise 14-D  \n·...20  \nPRONUNCIATION .  ··  \nPronunciation Exercise 14-A  \nPronunciation xercise 14-B  \nPronunciation Exercise 14-C  \nVoCABULARY BUILDING....·.·  \n..·..26  \nEFFECTIVE ExPRESSION:NARRATION.....  \n····.28  \nKinds of NarrationSources of MaterialThe Elements of NarrativeArrangement of Incidents  \nEXERCISES FOR LESSON FoURTEEN ..···..33ANSWERS TO ExERCISES .·....37  \n1930  \nCHICAGO  \nTHE BETTER-ENGLISH INSTITUTE OF AMERICA  \n1933 and 1935  \nTHE BETTER-SPEECH INSTITUTE OF AMERICA  \nCHICAGO  \n# PRACTICAL ENGLISHAND EFFECTIVE SPEECH\n\nLESSON FOURTEEN  \nPUNCTUATION(Concluded)  \nITH THIS lesson we shall conclude our study of punc-tuation,including the semicolon,the colon,the dash,the hyphen,quotation marks,the interrogation point,brackets and parentheses,and the exclamation point.  \nTHE SEMICOLON  \nThere is an old story to the effect that the semicolon was in-vented by a man who could never decide whether to use a periodor a comma,and who solved his difficulty by using both at onetime,placing the period over the comma!  \nIn order to use a semicolon properly,it is necessary to bear inmind the definition of conjunction.A conjunction,as the wordsuggests,is a joining word,such as and,but,or,for,etc.Con-junctions may join either words or groups of words;that is,theymay join words,phrases,or clauses,as illustrated by the follow-ing sentences:  \n1.John or Harry will accompany you.(The conjunction or joinstwo words.)  \n2.He went down the street and around the corner.(The conjunctionand joins two phrases.)  \n3.She is angry,but he is amused.(The conjunction but joins twoclauses.)  \nWhenever you have a sentence that contains a conjunction pre-ceded by a comma,you can replace the comma and the conjunctionby a semicolon.Stated mathematically,one conjunction plus one  \ncomma equals one semicolon.Let us see how this applies in thefollowing sentence:  \nThe hills of Virginia are rich,for coal and iron abound.  \nHere we have two ideas:(1)the hills of Virginia are rich;(2)coaland iron abound.These ideas are joined by the conjunction for,which is preceded by a comma,indicating the two independentthoughts.Let us rewrite the sentence,replacing the comma andthe conjunction by a semicolon.We then have:  \nThe hills 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