Punctuation Change Flashcards
Commas
Separating subject and predictor (witches, are)
Absence at end of parenthesis ???
Use of commas where we would now find full stops
Repeated use of commas, separating multiple clauses
Semi-colon
Separating semantically connected information eg in front of post-modifying relative clauses and in front of a prepositional phrase
Colon
Where there should be full stops
With following capital
Possessive -‘s inflection not yet in use
Inconsistent use okie dokie apostrophe for possession
Gods Glorie
Use of apostrophe for verbs
Ending in -ed when the final syllable is not pronounced separately
Join’d , pleas’d
Often inconsistent
Omission of speech marks
Oh, quoth he, I am brought …
Absence of new lines to mark each new speaker
Where there should be
Capitalisation of words mid sentence
Mostly nouns but also adjectives
Inconsistent or non-standard/ random capitalisation may be used to highlight words with thematic importance
Use of hyphens
Road names
Pudding - lane
Also in non-compounded nouns
High-wayes
Use of lower case after full stops
sickness. pray …
Use of the tilde ~ to indicate following nasal ‘n’ or ‘m’
Obstructiõs (obstructions)
Heave~s (heavens)
Exclamation mark
Use in middle of sentence
