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ABSTRACT
Key words: Punctuation in Turkish, Punctuation Marks, Punctuation
errors, punctuation proposals.
Punctuation is essential to translate oral language to written language
properly. Punctuation elements support oral language quality, it contribute
to transfer the benefits of oral language to written language. Punctuation
helps the one who writes by the mean of telling the thoughts and of sharing
the emotions to be transferred to. It also helps the reader as a guide to read
and understand properly.
This study, examined the Turkish punctuation consists of three parts:
In the first part, the problem in the work, objectives, importance and
methods are included. The purpose of the study is to identify rules of
punctuation and provide the punctuation marks to be used correctly in all
kind of texts by giving examples according to the these rules.
In this study a large number of sample sentences obtained by scanning
method were examined, through these examples the wrong usages and the
troubles lead to these wrong usages were tried to find; and solutions to these
problems are put, for each punctuation mark rules are offered, these bids
have been supported with examples.
In the second chapter, the Works made on punctuation, insightful
works on punctuation, researches and studies about punctuation marks were
evaluated. In these evaluations, information in terms of punctuation are
taught / are being learnt, the findings that the ability to use them properly is
not just enough is striking the level of learning.