Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. The oldest known...
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The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark /. It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names...
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support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Japanese punctuation (Japanese: 約物, Hepburn: yakumono) includes various written marks (besides...
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The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or a quoted...
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Full stop (redirect from Period (punctuation))
(Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point . is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative...
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Question mark (redirect from Question mark (punctuation))
known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many...
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a colon-like punctuation mark to separate words. There are two Unicode characters dedicated for this: U+16EB ᛫ RUNIC SINGLE PUNCTUATION and U+16EC ᛬ RUNIC...
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General Punctuation is a Unicode block containing punctuation, spacing, and formatting characters for use with all scripts and writing systems. Included...
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support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Irony punctuation is any form of notation proposed or used to denote irony or sarcasm in...
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Writing systems that use Chinese characters also include various punctuation marks, derived from both Chinese and Western sources. Historically, jùdòu...
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Punctuation marks are one or two part graphical marks used in writing, denoting tonal progress, pauses, sentence type (syntactic use), abbreviations,...
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symbols, ancient Greek punctuation, and German dictionary marks. Additional punctuation characters are in the General Punctuation block and sprinkled in...
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Punctuation in the English language helps the reader to understand a sentence through visual means other than just the letters of the alphabet. English...
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Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility...
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Bar (redirect from Bar (punctuation))
through a letter Bavarian language (ISO 639-3: bar) Vertical bar, a punctuation symbol X-bar theory, in linguistics Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, US...
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Bracket (redirect from Bracket (punctuation))
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They...
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Zero Punctuation is a series of video game reviews created by English comedy writer and video game journalist Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. From its inception...
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Dash (redirect from Dash (punctuation))
The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from...
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Hebrew punctuation is similar to that of English and other Western languages, Modern Hebrew having imported additional punctuation marks from these languages...
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Exclamation mark (redirect from Exclamation mark (punctuation))
mark (!) (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong...
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combination of East Asian and European punctuation, while North Korea uses a little more of the East Asian punctuation style. In the traditional Korean system...
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Interrobang (redirect from Interurban (Punctuation))
of the following: ?!, !?, ?!?,?!!, !?? or !?!), is an unconventional punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also known...
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Semicolon (redirect from Semicolon (punctuation))
semicolon ; (or semi-colon) is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation. In the English language, a semicolon is most commonly used to link (in...
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Apostrophe (redirect from Apostrophe (punctuation))
The apostrophe (' or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In...
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Comma (redirect from Comma (punctuation))
The comma , is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages. Some typefaces render it as a small line, slightly curved or...
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Ellipsis (redirect from Triple-dot punctuation mark)
of ellipsis, or colloquially, dot-dot-dot,[not verified in body] is a punctuation mark consisting of a series of three dots. An ellipsis can be used in...
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Hanging punctuation or exdentation is a microtypographic technique of typesetting punctuation marks and bullet points, most commonly quotation marks and...
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Quotation mark (redirect from Quotation marks (punctuation))
may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech...
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Ampersand (redirect from Ampersand (punctuation))
Boolean types. And (disambiguation) List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks Kai (abbreviation) Heta Tironian notes "The Ampersand & More" Archived...
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves (redirect from Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of BBC Radio 4's Cutting...
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