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    Early Greek writing had little punctuation and was written right to left. Later, Greeks used underlining and marks to indicate paragraphs and pauses. Romans introduced spacing between words and indenting first letters. They adapted Greek marks like colons. In the Middle Ages, punctuation broke down as few could read but writers kept spacing and marking paragraphs. Eventually words separated and new sentences began with larger initial letters.

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    Early Greek writing had little punctuation and was written right to left. Later, Greeks used underlining and marks to indicate paragraphs and pauses. Romans introduced spacing between words and indenting first letters. They adapted Greek marks like colons. In the Middle Ages, punctuation broke down as few could read but writers kept spacing and marking paragraphs. Eventually words separated and new sentences began with larger initial letters.

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    Early Greek writing had little punctuation and was written right to left. Later, Greeks used underlining and marks to indicate paragraphs and pauses. Romans introduced spacing between words and indenting first letters. They adapted Greek marks like colons. In the Middle Ages, punctuation broke down as few could read but writers kept spacing and marking paragraphs. Eventually words separated and new sentences began with larger initial letters.

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    A Short History of Punctuation

    EARLYGREEKSHAD HARDLYANYPUNCTUATION
    FONOITCERIDEHTDEGNAHCNEVEDNA*
    THEIRWRITINGATTHEENDOFEACHLINELATER
    GNITIRWFOYAWAOTDEGNAHCYEHT*
    THATFAVOREDRIGHTHANDEDPEOPLEANDSHOWED
    WHEREANEWPARAGRAPHBEGANBYUNDELINING
    THEFIRSTLINEOFITLATERTHEGREEKPLAYWRIGHT
    ARISTOPHANES , INVERTEDMARKSTOSHOW , WHERE
    THEREADERSSHOULDTAKEBREATH:
    THE . ROMANS . MADE . WRITING . MUCH . EASIER .
    TO . READ . BY . PUTTING . DOTS . BETWEEN . WORDS .
    AND . BY . MOVING . THE . FIRST . LETTER . OF . A .
    PARAGRAPH . INTO . THE . LEFT . MARGIN . THEY .
    ADAPTED . SOME . OF . THE . GREEK . MARKS. SUCH . AS . THE . COLON . MARK .
    TO . INDICATE . PHRASE . ENDINGS:
    INTHEEARLYMIDDLEAGESTHISSYSTEMOFPUNCTUATION
    BROKEDOWNBECAUSEVERYFEWPEOPLECOULDREAD
    ANDWRITE BUTWRITERSKEPTASPACEATTHEENDOF
    ASENTENCEANDCONTINUEDTOMARKPARAGRAPHS
    EVENTUALLY WORDS WERESEPARATED AGAIN AND NEW SENTENCES BEGAN
    WITH A LARGER LETTER
    *Hint: Try reading from right to left.
    A Short History of Punctuation
    by Polly M. Robertus
    Early Greeks had hardly any punctuation and even changed the
    direction of their writing at the end of each line. Later, they changed to a way of
    writing that favored right - handed people and showed where a new paragraph
    began by underlining the first line of it.

    Later, the Greek playwright Aristophanes, invented marks to show


    there readers should take breath.

    The Romans made writing much easier to read by putting dots


    between words and by moving the first letter of a paragraph into the left margin.
    They adapted some of the Greek marks such as colon mark to indicate phrase
    endings.

    In the early Middle Ages, this system of punctuation broke down


    because very few people could read and write but writer skept a space at the
    end of a sentence and continued to mark paragraphs.Eventually, words were
    separated again and new sentences began with a larger lettter .
    we went to the library yesterday
    there were many good books i
    picked a book about dogs my
    sister liked the book about stars
    we stayed for along time we
    read our books when we got
    home.
    We went to the library
    yesterday. There were many
    good books. I picked a book
    about dogs; my sister liked the
    book about stars. We stayed for
    along time. We read our books
    when we got home.
    There are
    Using big certain rules to
    letter or follow in
    upper-case capitalizing
    letter the letters
    Marks used in
    writing to
    separate
    sentences, phrases,
    and other
    elements to clarify
    its meaning
    Woman
    Let’s eat
    without
    Granpa her man is
    nothing
    Woman Woman
    withoutwithout
    her manher isman is
    nothingnothing

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