Pausing points include the comma, semicolon, and colon. The em dash and ellipsis, covered elsewhere, can also indicate pause.

Use a semicolon to join two related independent clauses in place of a comma and a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet). Make sure when you use the semicolon that the connection between the two independent clauses is clear without the coordinating conjunction.

Commas

ellipsis) Hint. When you use commas or dashes to signal a pause in the middle of a sentence, be sure to use the same punctuation before and after the pause.

Pauses can enhance delivery or be filled needlessly and distract the audience. A pause may refer to a rest, hesitation, or temporary stop. The speaker may use pauses to enhance the message delivery or fill the pauses needlessly and distract the audience from the message. …

Hesitation due to lack of skills Whenever you feel like you can write good English and read and understand it but hesitate to speak, that’s because you lack speaking skills. Whenever you feel like you know everything about something but still hesitate to do it, then that hesitation is caused by lack of skills.

7 Tips to Help You Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking

1. Start Small. If you’re new to the world of public speaking, start small.
2. Prepare Thoroughly. Nothing helps ease the fear of public speaking more than knowing your material.
3. Don’t Just Memorize the Words.
4. Avoid Common Bullets.
5. Reduce Stress.
6. Find a Friend to Focus On.
7. Engage the Audience.

Brown (2001) points out that clustering, reduced forms, per- formance variables, and colloquial language are the factors that make speaking difficult. These difficulties related to linguistic problems will be explained in this below: (1) Clustering. Fluent speech is phrasal not word by word.

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7 Ways to Quickly Improve Your English Language Skills

1. Watch movies in English.
2. Immerse yourself in English language news.
3. Start a vocabulary book of useful words.
4. Have conversations in English.
5. Practice, practice, practice.
6. Curiosity doesn’t always kill the cat.
7. Don’t forget to have fun while you learn.