{"id":161480837,"date":"2025-04-16T18:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writetosuccess.net\/writing-tip-6-terminal-punctuation\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:22:04","slug":"writing-tip-6-terminal-punctuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writetosuccess.net\/nl\/writing-tip-6-terminal-punctuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Tip 6: Terminal Punctuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The secret to successful sentences<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the things that overwhelms writing students \u2014 especially younger ones \u2014 is sheer quantity of options. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1583361704493-d4d4d1b1d70a?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxfHxkaWN0aW9uYXJ5fGVufDB8fHx8MTc0NDgxOTI5NHww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.0.3&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080\" alt=\"white printer paper with black text\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">English is a lexis-rich language whose straightforward grammar allows for endless variations. These facts are the joy and bane of every writer\u2019s life. For most students, they are mostly bane.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hence, I like to highlight the ways in which English is actually quite easy (!) <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facts so taken for granted that I\u2019d never noticed them before becoming a teacher have become crucial to my writing education practice.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Short. Simple. Straightforward. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing isn\u2019t always that, but when I focus on the aspects of writing that <em>are<\/em>, it assuages student anxiety and demystifies what can seem like an alchemical process. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, have you stopped to consider that there are only three terminal punctuation marks in English? That is, only three ways to end a sentence.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And those three punctuation marks \u2014 the period\/full stop, question mark and exclamation mark \u2014 give rise to just four sentence types:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><p>Declarative<\/p><\/li><li><p>Imperative<\/p><\/li><li><p>Interrogative <\/p><\/li><li><p>Exclamatory <\/p><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s it. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every sentence written in standard English, from <em>Harry Potter <\/em>to <em>War and Peace<\/em> to the works of Shakespeare to <em>What Color is Your Parachute<\/em>? can be categorized as one of those four sentence types. And will end in one of three terminal punctuation marks.<\/p><div class=\"native-video-embed\" data-component-name=\"VideoPlaceholder\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;93234721-2836-40f9-b90f-3c2d94741c48&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}\"\/><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Honing in on the fundamental simplicity of English, rather than succumbing to the temptation to show off its dazzling complexity, gives students a wedge they can shove into a crack in the wall called <em>writing<\/em>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secret to successful sentences<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161480837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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