The Story of the Beginning

Description : The story presents the history and the significance of the punctuation marks. It explains the necessity of punctuation marks to the meaning and the grammar since the Quran. It also explains the journey of how these marks developed as the Arab and foreign merchants used it. At the end of the book, Youssef presents a text without punctuation at all to show how punctaution can have drastic effects on the meaning and the context.

SGD : Goal 4: Quality Education,

Keywords : Children literature, the history and the importance of punctuation marks, Quran, the comma, the semicolon, the colon, the hyphen, the question mark, e exclamation mark, the quotation marks, and the parenthesis.

Type : An educational story

Relations : It is one of eight stories in the collection Our Beautiful Language: The Punctuation Mark

Coverage : A story about the history, the development and the importance of punctuation marks.

Language and Age : In Arabic for age 11-12

Publishing Rights : The writer and Al-Dar Al-Masriah Al-Lubnaniah, Cairo

Publisher and Place : Al-Dar Al-Masriah Al-Lubnaniah, Cairo

Publication Date : 2002

E-Format : 15 pages in Arabic