The teacher should make the students aware of the specialties of different typographic clues like ‘italics’, ‘bold letters’ etc. which may make the learners more purposeful and serious readers. During my childhood days, teachers used to tell us the functions of different punctuation marks such as comma, semicolon, colon, full stop, bold letters, capital letters, italics etc. Once your students become well versed in such typographical clues or punctuations, they would become excellent readers as they can catch the theme easily and suddenly. Let’s look at the functions of different typographic clues. Use of Comma
Use of Semicolon Semicolons are used to connect separate clauses. For Instance-He noticed that his father came there; his mother was absent; his brothers were tired and his friends did not come Use of Colon A colon has got different functions. They are
Use of Full Stops Full stop is an important typographical clue or punctuation mark which most of us use at wrong places because of confusion and lack of the accurate usages of it. The places where a full stop is used are
He is my student. He is brilliant
Use of bold letters Bold letters are used for highlighting some points or some themes. There different functions for bold letters, and they are
Use of Italics
The above picture is taken from wikiHow Use of the Capital Letter
We can use capital letters on different occasions. Some of the usages of capital letter are
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