Punctuations - विराम चिन्ह

Punctuations

विराम चिन्ह को Punctuations कहते हैं. इनका का उप्योग लिखते समय किया जाता है. इस से लेखक वाक्य के प्रकार व सही ठहराव की जानकारी दे पाते है.
Punctuations are used deployed at the time of writing. They indicate the type of sentences and the places where the pauses and stops are intended by the writer.

ज्यादातर प्रयुक्त होने वाले Punctuations हैं...

• Full Stop (फुल स्टॉप) - पूर्ण विराम
• Question Mark (क्वशन मार्क) - प्रश्न चिन्ह
• Exclamation Mark (एक्सक्लमेशन मार्क) - विस्मयादि बोधक चिन्ह
• Comma (कौमा) - अर्ध विराम
• Semi Colon (सेमी कोलन) - अल्प विराम
• Colon (कोलन) - विसर्ग
• Inverted Comma (इंवर्टेड कौमा) -
• Dash (डैश)
• Hyphen (हाइफन)
• Parentheses (पैरन्थीसिस)
• Apostrophe (अपॉस्ट्रॉफी)

Full Stop (फुल स्टॉप) - पूर्ण विराम

The full stop (.) is the greatest pause and indicates the end of an imperative or a declarative sentence.

The full stop has also been traditionally used in abbreviations, but now-a-days this use of the full stop has become optional.

B. Sc. or BSc
M. P. or MP

Comma (कौमा) - अर्ध विराम

The comma (,) is the short pause and is always used within sentences. It is used in cases wherever the writer wants to indicate a small separation, like...
To separate words or elements in a series...
This is Ram, Sahib, Kiran and Mahesh.
Get up, freshen up, have breakfast and rush off to school.

To connect two independent clauses...