Analysis of Punctuation Marks and Diction in the Essay 'Oxford in the Vacation' by Charles Lamb
This paper deals with the punctuation and the choice of words used in the essay, 'Oxford in the Vacation' written by Charles Lamb. The research regarding punctuation marks has been limited to dash, comma, parenthesis, colon, semicolon, and exclamation mark.The undertaken study aims at the standard usage of these marks and looks at how Lamb has used all of these in his essay under the question has been found that at some places, Lamb has violated important grammatical rules, which are blunders, but it has also been observed that to create a specific effect one will have to do the way Lamb did. The error analysis to some extent, has been used to explain the text and inner and deep understanding of the essay. This also opens up the question of when, how and why inversions, figurative of speech,and flamboyant style are rudimentary but necessary tools to acknowledge a good understanding of the writer's overall meaning.
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Essays of Elia, Oxford in the Vacations, Charles Lamb, Punctuation Marks
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(1) Farooq Shah
Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Altaf
Subject Specialist, Elementary and Secondary Education Department, KP.
(3) Faizan Khan
M.Phil Scholar, University of Hull, UK.
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APA : Shah, F., Altaf, M., & Khan, F. (2021). Analysis of Punctuation Marks and Diction in the Essay 'Oxford in the Vacation' by Charles Lamb. Global Regional Review, VI(II), 276-282. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).31
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CHICAGO : Shah, Farooq, Muhammad Altaf, and Faizan Khan. 2021. "Analysis of Punctuation Marks and Diction in the Essay 'Oxford in the Vacation' by Charles Lamb." Global Regional Review, VI (II): 276-282 doi: 10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).31
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HARVARD : SHAH, F., ALTAF, M. & KHAN, F. 2021. Analysis of Punctuation Marks and Diction in the Essay 'Oxford in the Vacation' by Charles Lamb. Global Regional Review, VI, 276-282.
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MHRA : Shah, Farooq, Muhammad Altaf, and Faizan Khan. 2021. "Analysis of Punctuation Marks and Diction in the Essay 'Oxford in the Vacation' by Charles Lamb." Global Regional Review, VI: 276-282
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MLA : Shah, Farooq, Muhammad Altaf, and Faizan Khan. "Analysis of Punctuation Marks and Diction in the Essay 'Oxford in the Vacation' by Charles Lamb." Global Regional Review, VI.II (2021): 276-282 Print.
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OXFORD : Shah, Farooq, Altaf, Muhammad, and Khan, Faizan (2021), "Analysis of Punctuation Marks and Diction in the Essay 'Oxford in the Vacation' by Charles Lamb", Global Regional Review, VI (II), 276-282
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TURABIAN : Shah, Farooq, Muhammad Altaf, and Faizan Khan. "Analysis of Punctuation Marks and Diction in the Essay 'Oxford in the Vacation' by Charles Lamb." Global Regional Review VI, no. II (2021): 276-282. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).31