PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALS. PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing written or printed discourse into sentences, and parts of sentences, by means of certain marks called points, for the purpose of bringing out as clearly as possible the meaning. * Capital letters are used for a like purpose and may be considered in the same connection. The word punctuation is from the Latin word "punctum," a point. Our present mode * * The word "capital" comes from the Latin čaput, a head. The letters of the words forming a heading or title are called head-letters, or capitals. |