Punctuation - Glossary of Terms
Punctuation
Punctuation is the use of conventional characters (e.g., full stops (periods
), commas) to improve clarity. In general, they aid comprehension by showing
a reader which words are grouped and where to pause. The characters include:
apostrophe ('), brackets ( ( ) ),
colon (:), comma (,),
dash (-), ellipsis
(...), exclamation mark (!), full stop (.),
hyphen (-), question mark (?),
quotation
marks ("") and semicolon (;).
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