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Meaning of "mispunctuate" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MISPUNCTUATE

mispunctuate  [ˌmɪsˈpʌŋktʃʊeɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISPUNCTUATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mispunctuate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb mispunctuate in English.

WHAT DOES MISPUNCTUATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mispunctuate in the English dictionary

The definition of mispunctuate in the dictionary is to punctuate erroneously.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MISPUNCTUATE

PRESENT

Present
I mispunctuate
you mispunctuate
he/she/it mispunctuates
we mispunctuate
you mispunctuate
they mispunctuate
Present continuous
I am mispunctuating
you are mispunctuating
he/she/it is mispunctuating
we are mispunctuating
you are mispunctuating
they are mispunctuating
Present perfect
I have mispunctuated
you have mispunctuated
he/she/it has mispunctuated
we have mispunctuated
you have mispunctuated
they have mispunctuated
Present perfect continuous
I have been mispunctuating
you have been mispunctuating
he/she/it has been mispunctuating
we have been mispunctuating
you have been mispunctuating
they have been mispunctuating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I mispunctuated
you mispunctuated
he/she/it mispunctuated
we mispunctuated
you mispunctuated
they mispunctuated
Past continuous
I was mispunctuating
you were mispunctuating
he/she/it was mispunctuating
we were mispunctuating
you were mispunctuating
they were mispunctuating
Past perfect
I had mispunctuated
you had mispunctuated
he/she/it had mispunctuated
we had mispunctuated
you had mispunctuated
they had mispunctuated
Past perfect continuous
I had been mispunctuating
you had been mispunctuating
he/she/it had been mispunctuating
we had been mispunctuating
you had been mispunctuating
they had been mispunctuating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will mispunctuate
you will mispunctuate
he/she/it will mispunctuate
we will mispunctuate
you will mispunctuate
they will mispunctuate
Future continuous
I will be mispunctuating
you will be mispunctuating
he/she/it will be mispunctuating
we will be mispunctuating
you will be mispunctuating
they will be mispunctuating
Future perfect
I will have mispunctuated
you will have mispunctuated
he/she/it will have mispunctuated
we will have mispunctuated
you will have mispunctuated
they will have mispunctuated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been mispunctuating
you will have been mispunctuating
he/she/it will have been mispunctuating
we will have been mispunctuating
you will have been mispunctuating
they will have been mispunctuating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would mispunctuate
you would mispunctuate
he/she/it would mispunctuate
we would mispunctuate
you would mispunctuate
they would mispunctuate
Conditional continuous
I would be mispunctuating
you would be mispunctuating
he/she/it would be mispunctuating
we would be mispunctuating
you would be mispunctuating
they would be mispunctuating
Conditional perfect
I would have mispunctuate
you would have mispunctuate
he/she/it would have mispunctuate
we would have mispunctuate
you would have mispunctuate
they would have mispunctuate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been mispunctuating
you would have been mispunctuating
he/she/it would have been mispunctuating
we would have been mispunctuating
you would have been mispunctuating
they would have been mispunctuating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you mispunctuate
we let´s mispunctuate
you mispunctuate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to mispunctuate
Past participle
mispunctuated
Present Participle
mispunctuating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MISPUNCTUATE


affiliate
əˈfɪlɪˌeɪt
appreciate
əˈpriːʃɪˌeɪt
associate
əˈsəʊʃɪˌeɪt
create
kriːˈeɪt
date
deɪt
debate
dɪˈbeɪt
devaluate
diːˈvæljʊeɪt
donate
dəʊˈneɪt
eight
eɪt
estate
ɪˈsteɪt
estimate
ˈɛstɪˌmeɪt
gate
ɡeɪt
generate
ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt
great
ɡreɪt
hate
heɪt
inchoate
ɪnˈkəʊeɪt
Kate
keɪt
Kuwait
kʊˈweɪt
revaluate
ˌriːˈvæljʊeɪt
valproate
vælˈprəʊeɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISPUNCTUATE

misplacement
misplant
misplay
misplead
mispleading
misplease
mispoint
misposition
mispraise
misprice
misprint
misprise
misprision
misprize
misprizer
misprogram
mispronunciation
misproportion
misproud
mispunctuation

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISPUNCTUATE

accentuate
actuate
adequate
effectuate
evaluate
eventuate
fluctuate
fructuate
graduate
habituate
infatuate
interpunctuate
overaccentuate
perpetuate
punctuate
reactuate
resituate
situate
tumultuate
undergraduate

Synonyms and antonyms of mispunctuate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mispunctuate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MISPUNCTUATE

Find out the translation of mispunctuate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mispunctuate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mispunctuate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

mispunctuate
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mispunctuate
570 millions of speakers

English

mispunctuate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

mispunctuate
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

mispunctuate
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

mispunctuate
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mispunctuate
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

mispunctuate
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mispunctuate
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Salah sangka
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mispunctuate
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

mispunctuate
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

mispunctuate
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Misalahctuate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mispunctuate
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

mispunctuate
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चुकीची माहिती देणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mispunctuate
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mispunctuate
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mispunctuate
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

mispunctuate
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mispunctuate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mispunctuate
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mispunctuate
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mispunctuate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mispunctuate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mispunctuate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MISPUNCTUATE»

The term «mispunctuate» is normally little used and occupies the 141.151 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MISPUNCTUATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mispunctuate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mispunctuate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mispunctuate

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISPUNCTUATE»

Discover the use of mispunctuate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mispunctuate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Writing for Accountants
So too, writers employ conventional symbols or marks within their texts to help readers decipher their communications. To mispunctuate is to ignore the Generally Accepted Punctuation Practices (GAPP) and possibly to misguide the reader.
Aletha S. Hendrickson, 1993
2
Ideas & Details, 2009 MLA Update Edition
When you mispunctuate, a reader can usually figure out what you intended to say . But you make her read twice what should only have to be read once, and you may give her an entirely wrong idea. For instance, reread the first sentence ...
M. Garrett Bauman, 2009
3
Cengage Advantage Books: Ideas & Details
When you mispunctuate, a reader can usually figure out what you intended to say . But you make her read twice what should only have to be read once, and you may give her an entirely wrong idea. For instance, reread the first sentence in this  ...
M. Garrett Bauman, 2012
4
Smoked Glass
... Parody; and "conservatively" touching upon the Presidential Nomination of the last Mackerel General by a classical Convention, 182 LETTER XVI. Showing how a disloyal Telegraph did pervert and mispunctuate the Mackerel General's ...
Robert Henry Newell, 1868
5
Semicentennial Publications of the University of California
... legislate, letterize, literalize, localize, logicize, lyricize, marginalize, mathematecize, melodramatize, memorandum, metricize, miscolor, miscopy, misderive, misdescribe, misfame, mispunctuate, moan, monogrammatize, monologize, mor- tify, ...
University of California, Berkeley
6
Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road
The following publications also mispunctuate the Gegu Yaolun's phrase, using a comma: (i) Stephen Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art (1980), p. 103; (ii) T'an Tan- chiang (1968), p. 17; (iii) James Watt (1996[c]), p. 431; (iv) Wang Qingzheng in ...
Adam T. Kessler, 2012
7
Art of the Bedchamber: The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics ...
... would be more appropriate for an expression, after all, that still is in common use today. H.V.G. mispunctuate the line, running it on with the next and resulting in a translation of iii—tut? as “drill the movements” instead of “frequent practice.
Douglas Wile
8
Translator Self-Training--Spanish Legal
... you mispunctuate or miss any punctuation marks? Clarity-did you fail to clearly convey the meaning of any.
Morry Sofer, 2011
9
Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing: Rethinking ...
... conscious analysis that lead writers to mispunctuate dependent clauses beginning with "whereas" or "which is to say" as if they were sentences. Thus, the perceived standard is what language users, whether students, graduates, or teachers, ...
Lee Odell, 1993
10
Ideas & Details: A Guide to College Writing
When you mispunctuate, a reader can usually figure out what you intended to say . But you make her read twice what should only have to be read once, and you may give her an entirely wrong idea. For instance, reread the first sentence in this  ...
M. Garrett Bauman, 2008

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Mispunctuate [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/mispunctuate>. May 2024 ».
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