英语标点符号的使用方法 
书、笔、纸、墨水。
  大家看看上面的句子，句中用的是什么标点呢？相信谁都会说是：顿号和句号啦。在英文句子里，也有顿号(、)和小圈儿句号(。)吗？上面的句子以英文来写的话，就应该是：   Book, pen, paper, ink.
  可见在英文里是不用顿号和中文式句号的。标点符号在中、英文里的写法和用法有好多差别。下面就让我们从一个中文里所没有的标点开始吧。
一、Apostrophe (')省字符号、所有格符号
  这个标点在中文里是没有的；但在英文里却随处可见。主要用在下列几方面：
  * 表示所有格 (所有格的变化也不少，详细情形容后再谈)   * 缩写式
  * 表示一些数字、字母、日期、缩写的复数形式 1.1 所有格 (Possessives):(注意：下列所有格只用在动物方面) 1.1.1 在名词(有生命的)后加上 's 表示单数所有格：
2.2.1 用逗号分开两个以上的并列形容词：(如果并列的形容词之间可加上and,
but等，那就加上逗号；否则不可)
1. That tall, distinguished, good looking fellow. (可写成 He is a tall and
distinguished fellow.)
2. She is a little and old lady. (不可写成 She is a little, old lady.) 
   2.2.2 在两个修饰主语的短语之间加上逗号(句短可不加)： 1. While waiting for the bus on that cold rainy night, she started sneezing. (主语she)
2. At 10 o'clock the bus arrived. (不必写成 At 10 o'clock, the bus arrived.)
  2.2.3 在 Jr., Sr., Esq., Ph.D., F.R.S., Inc., 等名称之前及后都要加上逗 号(除了所有格的名称):
1. They identified him as Howard R. Williams, Jr., chairman of their board. (,Jr.,)

2. That is Howard R. Williams, Jr.'s company. (,Jr.'s 后面不可再加逗号)
 2.2.4 在追问句之前加逗号：
1. Do it, won't you? (Do it 是命令语气，won't you?是追问) 2. You know the answer, don't you? 3. It is warm today, isn't it?
  2.2.5 一个以副词或副词短语开头的句子，如果它和前面的句子有关联的话，必
须在有关副词或副词短语后加上逗号：
1. She believed he had the talent to succeed. Unfortunately, he was lazy.
(后一个句子以副词 unfortunately 开头，同时这个句子和前一个句子有直接的关联)
  2.2.6  在句子里有超过三个并列词或短语等，在最后一个，and, or, nor等 之前加逗号：
1. He promised to supply the pencils, pens, and notebooks for the class.
(简单说就是 pencils, pens, notebooks 要写成 pencils, pens, and notebooks)
2.  Her mother sells tomatoes, potatoes, apples, and peaches. (...apples, and...)
3.  She ran up the stairs, across the porch, and into the house. (up the
staris, across the porch, into the house 是三个短语，在最后一个加 ,and)
4.  We all agreed that she was beautiful, that she was intelligent, and
that she was ambitious. (三个 that she was...都是子句 )
2.2.7  在句子中加上逗号，以免引起误解：
1. That she knew where the money was, was news to me. (如果was, was 之间
不加逗号，是不是会引起误解呢？)
2. Outside, the lawn was cluttered with hundreds of broken branches.
   外面的草坪上到处是断枝。
   (如果outside 后去掉逗号, 那意思就变成“在草坪的外面到处是断枝。”)