CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND UZBEK PUNCTUATION RULES

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This article provides a comparative view of the use of punctuation in English and Uzbek, and explores the similarities and differences between them. There are also some ideas on how to use punctuation effectively and correctly. However, given that punctuation is one of the most important aspects of written and spoken speech, it is emphasized that their proper use will provide effective results not only for English linguists, but also for translators and grammar experts. KEYWORDS:- Comparative typology, contrastive linguistics, punctuation, the full stop, the comma, the hyphen, the inverted commas, the semi-colon, the colon, parentheses. languages are extinct and unique. This is I NTRODUCTION especially true with the grammar where rules vary according to the root and family of a Comparative Linguistics or Comparative language. Grammar is a study of the relationships or correspondences between two or more T HE MAIN RESULTS AND FINDINGS languages and the techniques used to discover whether the languages have a common ancestor. Comparative typology is a branch of linguistics Comparative grammar was the most important comparing languages to establish their branch of linguistics in the 19th century in similarities and differences. Its object is not Europe. The study was originally stimulated by singular and individual cases of similarity and the discovery by Sir William Jones in 1786 that difference, but those which are common for large Sanskrit was related to Latin, Greek and German groups of language elements. Comparative [1]. The need for further research in this field is typology classifies languages according to their increasing day by day with the rising interest in structure [2]. Present-day Comparative learning languages. Languages may share some Linguistics has been developing in compliance common structures which will be easy to master with new modern research paradigms, under the for the learner. However, some features in influence of which it has undergone radical CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PEDAGOGICSISSN 1 – 2767-3278 https://masterjournals.com/index.php/crjp CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PEDAGOGICS 2(6): 01-05, June 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37547/pedagogics-crjp-02-06-01 ISSN 2767-3278 ©2021 Master Journals Accepted 04thJune, 2021 & Published 09th June, 2021 changes. understanding and correct reading, both silently and aloud, of handwritten and Comparative typology is a field of linguistics that printed texts” studies and classifies languages according to their structural and functional features. Its aim is • The usage of punctuation is to help the to describe and explain the common properties reader understand the message. In speech: and the structural diversity of the world's stress, intonation and pauses present a languages. According to William Croft’s book role of punctuation. “Typology and Universals”, the term ‘‘typology’’ • A system specific to written language: a is roughly synonymous with ‘‘taxonomy” pause in spoken language – not always a classification and given the following definition: punctuation mark punctuation imposes a From an etymological point of view, the word more rigid structure to writing. typology consists of two Greek morphemes: typos means “type” and logos means “science” [3, • There are 14 punctuation marks in English P. 5]. grammar and, at minimum, one of them has to appear in every sentence. However, As it is known, it is almost impossible to imagine in Uzbek language there are 10 a paragraph without any periods or commas. In punctuation marks which are used in a truth this kind of sentence would be almost great variety. unreadable. Here is the proof why punctuation is very important. Names of punctuation marks • Definition of punctuation from Before looking at punctuation mark and defining Encyclopedia Britannica “the use of their rule of usage we have to know about the spacing, conventional signs, and certain names of punctuation marks. typographical devices as aids to the The Full Stop Nuqta hThe Comma kVergul The Capital letters – s e The Hyphen Tire i b The Question Mark So’roq belgisi l gThe Apostrophe z– Square brackets – n U The Inverted Commas Qo’shtirnoq The Semi-Colon Nuqta vergul E The Colon Ikki nuqta Parentheses Qavs The Exclamatory Mark Undov The Slash or Oblique – Ellipsis point Ko’p nuqta CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PEDAGOGICSISSN 2 – 2767-3278 https://masterjournals.com/index.php/crjp CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PEDAGOGICS 2(6): 01-05, June 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37547/pedagogics-crjp-02-06-01 ISSN 2767-3278 ©2021 Master Journals Accepted 04thJune, 2021 & Published 09th June, 2021 Capital letters and full stop ifodalangan. In English capital letters are used to mark the Exclamation marks in English are used to beginning of a sentence and full stops to mark indicate an exclamative clause or expression in the end of a sentence. Capital letters are used at informal writing. When we want to emphasize the beginning of proper nouns. Proper nouns so