• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The full stop (Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point . is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to...
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  • symbols. Irony punctuation is any form of notation proposed or used to denote irony or sarcasm in written text. Written text, in English and other languages...
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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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  • Dependent clause (category English grammar)
    discussion of adjective clauses in languages other than English, see Relative clause#Examples. The punctuation of an adjective clause depends on whether it is...
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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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  • combination of East Asian and European punctuation, while North Korea uses more of the East Asian punctuation style. In the traditional Korean system...
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  • English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts...
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  • talking marks, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify...
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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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    learners learn more efficiently to read and write English. English writing also includes a system of punctuation marks that is similar to those used in most...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • (then, since), exception (though), and comparison (whereas). Some common English conjunctive adverbs are: accordingly also anyway besides certainly consequently...
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  • Serial comma (category Punctuation of English)
    In English-language punctuation, the serial comma, also referred to as the series comma, Oxford comma, or Harvard comma, is a comma placed immediately...
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  • today's society. Her goal is to remind readers of the importance of punctuation in the English language by mixing humour and instruction. Truss dedicates the...
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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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  • points,: 19  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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  • or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe...
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    alphabet, arguing that it does not function as a form of punctuation. Hyphens are often used in English compound words. Written compound words may be hyphenated...
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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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  • ; (or semi-colon) is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation. In the English language, a semicolon is most commonly used to link (in a single...
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    differences in punctuation rules. British English is more tolerant of run-on sentences, called "comma splices" in American English, and American English prefers...
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  • Standard Deviants (category Use American English from May 2024)
    information with humorous examples and comic sketches. For example, the English punctuation video illustrates the usage of exclamation points through a sketch...
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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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  • exclamation mark ! (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate...
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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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