Terminal punctuation refers to the punctuation marks used to identify the end of a portion of text. Terminal punctuation marks are also referred to as...
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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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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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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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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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Modern computer-based digital fonts can adjust the spacing after terminal punctuation as well, creating a space slightly wider than a standard word space...
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Exclamation mark (redirect from Exclamation mark (punctuation))
exclamation 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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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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direction (left to right) became standardized. Word dividers and terminal punctuation became common. The first way to divide sentences into groups was...
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Quotation marks in English (redirect from Logical punctuation)
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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End mark (category Punctuation)
refer to Look up end mark in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Any terminal punctuation at the end of a sentence Especially the full stop (period) A symbol...
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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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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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sentence spacing. However, the manual itself uses one space after terminal punctuation. This is likely because the double-space convention was not prescribed...
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Sentence spacing (category Punctuation)
increased spacing between words is punctuation in itself. Most do not. Grammar guides typically cover terminal punctuation and the proper construction of...
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the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation. Also from Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale: I am not prone to weeping...
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the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation. Epigraph: a quotation from another literary work that is placed...
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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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ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often only these characters (and not other Unicode punctuation) are...
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Russian orthography (section Punctuation)
(„“) at the second: Unlike American English, the period or other terminal punctuation is placed outside the quotation. As the example above demonstrates...
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Unicode character property (section Punctuation)
are a punctuation character. The properties all have a Yes/No values: Dash, Quotation_Mark, Sentence_Terminal, Terminal_Punctuation. The Punctuation property...
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U+166D CANADIAN SYLLABICS CHI SIGN from "Po" to "So" and make it Terminal_Punctuation=No. L2/21-088 King, Kevin (2021-04-06), Proposed revisions to the...
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enjambed—the meaning runs over from one line to the next, without terminal punctuation—which helps to create the long, flowing narrative of epic. Sentences...
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printable characters, which severely limit its scope. The set of available punctuation had significant impact on the syntax of computer languages and text markup...
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Halfwidth and fullwidth forms (redirect from Fullwidth punctuation)
includes a fullwidth version of all the ASCII characters and some non-ASCII punctuation such as the Yen sign, halfwidth versions of katakana and hangul, and...
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period inside a quotation in U.S. spelling. In metal type, pieces of terminal punctuation, such as the comma and period, are comparatively small and delicate...
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Hyphen (redirect from Hyphen (punctuation))
The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen...
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L2/03-267 Duff, Tony (2003-08-18), Comments on Public Review Issue #12 (Terminal Punctuation) L2/03-268 Fynn, Christopher (2003-08-18), Unicode Tibetan [explanation...
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Thai punctuation via English, the quotation marks """" are used instead of guillemets, "«»", and spaces are not inserted before terminal punctuation marks...
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one accented Latin letter (É), the Arabic numerals, and a small set of punctuation and procedural signals (prosigns). There is no distinction between upper...
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